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Unsupported PCs will get Cumulative Updates but not new Windows 11 Builds

Microsoft sheds some light on how "unsupported PCs" will work when Windows 11 is installed on such hardware. In short, no new builds of Windows 11 will come to them. But they will receive cumulative updates until the general availability of the OS. After that, Windows will prompt the user to return back to Windows 10.

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The information comes from the Brandon LeBlanc, a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the Windows Insider Program Team. He made the following statement on twitter:

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Mr. LeBlanc explained that those PCs in the Dev Channel won't get new Insider Preview builds, but will continue to receive patches like it happens right now.

As you could already guess, the Dev channel will soon host builds from a newer branch, which will eventually become the successor of the initial Windows 11 release, say "Windows 12". So for unsupported devices those builds will be inaccessible.

If we understood everything correct, devices running Windows 11 in that unsupported mode will stop receiving updates on October 5, 2021. That's the date when Windows 11 reaches general availability.

After that date, Windows 11 will ask the user to return back to Windows 10. By that time, we expect Windows 10 version 21H2 to become generally available as well, so it could be offered as a Windows 11 replacement.

The official Microsoft's post says that you will need to clean install Windows 10. Also, the company noted that the user can join the Release Preview channel of Windows 10 to preview its latest updates.

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Author: Sergey Tkachenko

Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer who started Winaero back in 2011. On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube.

One thought on “Unsupported PCs will get Cumulative Updates but not new Windows 11 Builds”

  1. I don’t like to be insulting but this is insane. The stupid thing was going to take over anyway as new computers are purchased so instead of their latest and most secure (in theory) OS being available to all, they’re doing all this rubbish to annoy power users. Not that I care because I’ll never use 10 or 11. Not optimistic about 12 either, to be honest!

    Finally settled on Mint and Ubuntu Studio as soon as I have a bit of spare time. Still have 16 months support on this stupid thing so it’s all good. ;-)

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