![]() ![]() My personal belief is that Microsoft is intentionally being vague about the Windows 11 hardware driver requirements in order to save face for its partners. The problem is that these devices are, indeed, "legacy" - no owner pays for support. It will probably take several hundreds to a few thousand man-hours to rewrite the Gen7 drivers in DCH. So therefore, in order for a legacy Gen7 device to fully be supported within the enhanced Windows 11 security model, DCH drivers would need to be written.īut, exactly, who is going to pay for this? Microsoft wants Windows 11 to be DCH-only in order to support a greater level of system integrity. Well, if what I said is true, we can at least begin to understand the thinking that must have occurred between & at Microsoft, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Intel, Supermicro, Gigabyte, MSI and any other board-level system integrator / designer:Īll their Gen7 boards were released with "legacy" DC-level Windows 10 drivers. My belief is that Microsoft, or Intel for that matter, is indeed writing DCH drivers for the i7-7820HQ in order to keep their Surface Studio 2 relevant, saleable, and existing customers (who dropped BIG coinage) happy. The issue is: Microsoft & Intel don't want to write DCH drivers for the legacy hardware. There is nothing structurally preventing Gen7 CPU's from being able to run Windows 11, as far as I can tell (and the added i7-7820HQ proves), Gen7 CPU's have all the facilities needed. Read: Intel Gen7 CPU's and chipset drivers aren't written in DCH, which started widespread support with Gen 8 Intel CPU's. So Gen7 CPU's *can* handle Windows 11.the claimed "CPU hardware requirements" are all in the driver support. Note that the Core i7-7820HQ was added to the Approved list, late, after much consternation over lack of support on a still-available Microsoft product. ![]() But, based upon my (not absolute) research, the "new" hardware requirements are bogus.
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