Completely agree, but the way Microsoft handled it all was terrible. They announced those debatable hardware requirements, fine. They DIDN’T justify in layman’s terms why they had to “cut off” at 8th Gen/2nd Gen, not cool but, you know, they made a corporate decision, FINE. So why then allow thousands of people with non-eligible PCs to install the Windows 11 beta for four months, only to announce a week before launch that they will not be updating those PCs in the future?

We all know why. They needed beta testers and telemetry data but did not want to pay for that — one of the richest tech firms on the planet — so they used eager consumers and then left them in the cold. That is what happened.

All I mean is: there was no transparency on Microsoft’s behalf regarding those hardware requirements, but they are hardly alone in that. Not OK, definitely not OK, but not illegal, so… *shrugs*.

They DID have to set those hardware requirements and then STICK to those, though. That they should have done. They didn’t. They even conveniently gave a pass to a Surface Studio model despite it not meeting those requirements. That’s not how companies show respect to consumers. That’s the exact opposite. Just my two cents.