[supernovae]

windows 11 is better for requiring the modern cpus..it suffers greatly in performance if you install it on unsupported chipsets..

[sys_64738]

This is just them being lazy or trying to set a baseline of TPM 2.0 based systems. There's no technical reason to not support those chipsets already supported in Win11.

[gruez]

What features did they add that required newer chipsets? It made sense sense for windows vista because of all the 3d/glass effects. For windows 11 all they add was... rounded corners.

[mavhc]

What changed between a 7th and 8th gen intel cpu that made it not work?

[supernovae]

Lots of articles on this.. i suspect similar issues of security and performance for the reason mac deprecated that hardware too on current os.

[mhio]

Macos 12 runs on Ivy Bridge 2013 mac pro's and haswell mac minis, so on their side it wouldn't appear to be a technical limitation of the older CPU's. Apple does their trusted stuff on the T2 rather than the Windows generic TPM 2.0 requirement, but interestingly the 2013 mac pro lacks a T2 as well. I think TPM 2.0 was a 6th gen skylake onwards thing?

[mavhc]

Don't see any that explain what specifically changed that made it not work.