Windows 11 24H2 will block processors that lack the SSE4.2 instruction set

[PatrThom]

Wait now hold on a second.
Windows 10 on ARM can only run x86 32-bit apps.
Windows 11 on ARM finally adds x64 compatibility to Windows on ARM.
BUT Windows on ARM only emulates x86 instructions up to the SSE 4.1 instruction set.
...Is it possible being done as a roundabout way of locking out the ability to run ARM versions of 64-bit Windows on Apple Silicon architecture?

 

[DubiousFishHook]

Apparently this sparks more hate than ole Billy Goat visiting epstein Island.
y-rays inc(?).

 

[trparky]

When you can go to Newegg, Best Buy, or Microcenter and get a new notebook for less than $300, any argument that's been put forward in this comment section null and void.

 

[Disiw]

I still wonder what Microsoft think people who can't upgrade to Windows 11 should do, when Windows 10 hit EOL status in 1½ year.

 

[erickmendes]

Just Apple being Apple... oh that's Microsoft.

 

[SpatulaCity]

At this point. I'm really ready to switch to something else besides Apple, Google and Microsoft. I've done Ubuntu a couple of times but didn't quite make it a habit of using it for my daily general purpose stuff. I really am ready now.

 

[Disiw]

At this point. I'm really ready to switch to something else besides Apple, Google and Microsoft. I've done Ubuntu a couple of times but didn't quite make it a habit of using it for my daily general purpose stuff. I really am ready now.

Used Unix and Linux for 25 years at this point, for servers. Never liked it for desktop.

Lacks native apps and support in general. Linux has a sub 1% desktop marketshare for a reason.

Especially for people that play games and buys new and shiny high-end hardware, Linux is a nightmare unless you have a very specific use-case. The overall experience is terrible.

"Linux is free if your time has no value" still stands.

MacOS has like 10-15 times the desktop marketshare for a reason. It is actually an alternative to Windows with good support and native app focus.

 

[dolly singh]

I don't quite understand the connection here. In 2008, platforms didn't have TPM 2.0, and now Microsoft is imposing it as a requirement, cutting CPU support for hardware they never fully supported initially. What's the big deal?

 

[Hotlynx16]

I know of an escalator that is still controlled by a windows 95 computer. All it needs to do is control the speed and direction of the steps. When Inwas talking to the guy about it he said it would cost millions to replace it because they would have to reverse engineer or just replace the motors and motor controllers in it.

There was a Dell Windows 98 computer that was interfaced with PLC and Flow monitoring equipment at a barge loading system at a major chemical plant that was in use from 2000 until 2021! I maintained it until I retired. They had to bring in a software engineering company to write software for the new computer in 2021! While I was there I kept it clean and made hard drive back-ups for it because the original software disks had disappeared!WOW! The only thing I had to replace was the hard drive and power supply in 21 years!

 

[Jon Heil]

Its all good but average life for more real computer users are 2-5 years. Got to love people using those old ones or redo a 4th or 6th gen machine, that is just silly. Just wish companies would see that and upgrade the machines to good ones and get he job done in a 1/10 of the time and no need to waste money paying the employee just to waste time and all.