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Microsoft "carpet bombing" Win10 users recommend Win11 to it, even if it does not support upgrades

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 14:49:48 10月04日 Update

CTOnews.com, February 24 (Xinhua)-- Microsoft began to upgrade its devices to Win11 in a radical way earlier this month. After pushing a full-screen upgrade prompt with two "Yes" buttons to users, Microsoft upgraded its approach again: it "blanketed" all Win10 devices, and even devices that were clearly outdated and did not meet the upgrade criteria received suggestions to upgrade Win11.

Foreign netizen @ PhantomOfEarth is on a virtual machine with only 2GB memory, dual-core CPU, 60GB storage space and no TPM. This configuration obviously does not meet Microsoft's Win11 upgrade threshold requirements, but it still received a reminder from Microsoft to upgrade Win11.

After installing the latest cumulative updates, this virtual machine can see a full-screen Win11 upgrade reminder. CTOnews.com is translated as follows:

Unlock immediately: your device is eligible for a free Win11 upgrade.

Don't worry-system updates will be downloaded in the background (about 4GB), and you can continue to use PC during the process.

On the button, there is no option for the user to reject, only "Get it" (start immediately) and "schedule it" (set upgrade time).

More interestingly, after users clicked to the new page, Microsoft showed that the virtual machine that obviously did not meet the upgrade Win11 could run Win11 smoothly.