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I have three systems -- two with 6th generation i7-6700 CPUs and a third with the 7th-gen i7-7700K. We are hurtling toward the October 14 2025 End-of-Support milestone for Windows 10. So far, one of my PCs has been "upgraded" to Win 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC to extend support through January 2032. Another system has received its enrollment into the promised ESU. And the third PC -- used for playing a media collection to the connected Sony Bravia TV -- just has Windows 10 not yet prepared for the loss of MS support.
To upgrade to Windows 11, an older computer needs (a) the Secure-Boot feature in a UEFI BIOS, (b) a TPM 2.0 enabled, and (c) CPU that is Coffee Lake or later.
Suppose you have -- as I do -- full compliance with (a) and (b). Or that you purchased the TPM 2.0 module for $25 and installed it on your motherboards.
I look at the difference between my Skylake and Kaby Lake processors on one hand -- and the Coffee Lake 8th gen CPUs on the other. With Coffee Lake, we are still looking at Skylake cores -- the essential difference between Kaby and Coffee being the latter has i7 processors with six cores, while Kaby Lake i7 is limited to four cores.
Our biggest anxiety about a Windows 11 upgrade arises in our anticipation of Windows Update behavior in the future. Some bloggers report that they are denied "Feature Updates" automatically installed -- requiring a lot of trouble to complete the installation -- maybe every year or every other year. A lot of these caveats about Windows Update seem to arise with CPUs of an older vintage -- older than Skylake.
So, given this lack of fundamental differences between Kaby and Coffee, how or why would Windows 11 make such a difficulty with Feature updates? Unless MS causes the update difficulty deliberately, there would be no reason that it would occur between those generations of CPUs. Or with a different perspective, why would MS deliberately cause update failures on CPUs that don't physically vary much from the first CPUs eligible for Win 11 compliance?
It would not be a deliberate effort. So one might expect Sky and Kaby lake processors to complete Windows Updates normally -- including the Feature Updates.
To upgrade to Windows 11, an older computer needs (a) the Secure-Boot feature in a UEFI BIOS, (b) a TPM 2.0 enabled, and (c) CPU that is Coffee Lake or later.
Suppose you have -- as I do -- full compliance with (a) and (b). Or that you purchased the TPM 2.0 module for $25 and installed it on your motherboards.
I look at the difference between my Skylake and Kaby Lake processors on one hand -- and the Coffee Lake 8th gen CPUs on the other. With Coffee Lake, we are still looking at Skylake cores -- the essential difference between Kaby and Coffee being the latter has i7 processors with six cores, while Kaby Lake i7 is limited to four cores.
Our biggest anxiety about a Windows 11 upgrade arises in our anticipation of Windows Update behavior in the future. Some bloggers report that they are denied "Feature Updates" automatically installed -- requiring a lot of trouble to complete the installation -- maybe every year or every other year. A lot of these caveats about Windows Update seem to arise with CPUs of an older vintage -- older than Skylake.
So, given this lack of fundamental differences between Kaby and Coffee, how or why would Windows 11 make such a difficulty with Feature updates? Unless MS causes the update difficulty deliberately, there would be no reason that it would occur between those generations of CPUs. Or with a different perspective, why would MS deliberately cause update failures on CPUs that don't physically vary much from the first CPUs eligible for Win 11 compliance?
It would not be a deliberate effort. So one might expect Sky and Kaby lake processors to complete Windows Updates normally -- including the Feature Updates.
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