The people of Redmond are trying to persuade users to expand their machine with an annoying solution.
Those users running the Windows 11 operating system – to be precise, its 2H22 version – who installed the latest update released by Microsoft in January, may have experienced a strange phenomenon if their computer’s hardware does not meet the Redmond software giant’s recommendation – writes the Tom’s Hardware.
According to the information on the page, a watermark appears in the lower right corner of the screen for these users, which contains the following message:
The system requirements are not met. Go to Settings to find out what that means.
Clicking on the link in the indicated place will take the user to Microsoft’s website, where he can read how to install Windows 11 on a system that does not meet the requirements. There is also a suggestion on the page that the user should restore or install the previous version, i.e. Windows 10, which was discontinued by Microsoft at the end of January.
However, a user of one of Microsoft’s community forums experienced an interesting phenomenon: the watermark appeared even though he bought his computer with Windows 11 pre-installed, which means that the computer must have met the mentioned system requirements. However, the Tom’s Hardware expert suspects that for now it can only be a test run. Microsoft demonstrated this solution in March last year, which has not yet appeared on all users’ computers.
By the way, Windows 11 has surprisingly strict minimum system requirements, as it requires a TPM 2.0 security chip on the motherboard to run. For this reason, the system can be officially installed with Intel 8th-Gen or AMD 2nd-Gen processors, at least 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. It may happen that someone still gets the warning, in which case TPM 2.0 must be turned on in the BIOS.
For now, it seems that this is the only retort, i.e. users only have to see the watermark, but it is possible that Microsoft may introduce more drastic measures in the future, such as turning off updates on unsupported machines.