[JeremyNT]

> Makes no sense there is nothing to buy. Win11 is a free "update". Not adding it as update to win10 but give it a new name I purely marketing. Stuff like that happens if new people are in charge and want to have a new thing "made by them". It does not cost the users anything.

Except for the bit that's the entire point of this tool: they dropped support for a ton of systems.

For a lot of people, to "upgrade" to Windows 11 means "buy a whole new PC." This drives additional sales of Windows 11 PCs (of which MS will take a cut).

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The tool is useless you dont need it at all. Someone even wrote an GitHub issue about that but the owner deleted it. MS has detailed steps on the official website how you can install or update on unsupported hardware. They dont prevent anyone from running windows 11. They simply wont provide support if you run it on older hardware. Beside that they didn not drop support for "tons of systems" quiet the opposite they committed to provide updates to windows 10 for almost 5 years (likely to be extended). By then hardware not officially supported by windows 11 will be at least 7 years old.

>For a lot of people, to "upgrade" to Windows 11 means "buy a whole new PC." This drives additional sales of Windows 11 PCs (of which MS will take a cut).

How so? You dont need to upgrade nor buy a new hardware. If you want to that's entirely on you and has nothing to do with windows 11. The only reason to buy new hardware is if the old does not work for your use-case anymore or if support runs out in 5 years but chances are you replaced the hardware due to age long before that.