In 2021 Windows 11 limited official support to 4yo Intel & 3yo AMD chips

I doubt they want to repeat this on purpose. They probably would of waited a few more years eeking out windows 10 if it wasn't because of hardware flaws with spectre and meltdown that make supporting windows 10 problematic. The new OS isn't exactly jucing new corporate sales.

This was all due to security problems.

This is also not a hard requirement as you can install win 11 on unsupported hardware, though it's not supported by Microsoft. It should run just fine on any hardwrae running win 10

Andrewcw said:

I doubt they want to repeat this on purpose. They probably would of waited a few more years eeking out windows 10 if it wasn't because of hardware flaws with spectre and meltdown that make supporting windows 10 problematic. The new OS isn't exactly jucing new corporate sales.

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Nope. Corporate IT, at least at my company, is now working on rolling out its first Windows 11 installs. They've been downgrading everything to 10 because that's the only version they know works with most of their productivity applications. They'll test-run a few instances of Windows 11 on test machines for a good while before they start rolling out upgrades and when they do roll them out, it will be to all machines that support it, but if your machine doesn't support it, it gets replaced on the same cycle they would have replaced it anyway. But once 11 is tested on their main applications, they won't be downgrading any more, and they probably won't approve a downgrade even if you really want it.

I'll still be on windows 10 until they give me a reason to upgrade.