Microsoft offered Windows 11 upgrades to non-compliant systems

Microsoft erroneously offered upgrades to Windows 11 to users with systems that do not meet the minimum requirements. It reportedly happened even with a vm without a rpm module and with 2GB of ram, which is half the minimum.

That last reports a user on Twitter. Those who accepted the unintentional offer noticed that the upgrade could not be completed. Microsoft is now reporting that the problem has been solved, but does not say how widespread the problem was, only that ‘some’ systems were wrongly offered. The problem was discovered on Thursday and was resolved on Friday. By now, these changes must have been propagated everywhere, so that the unjustified offer should no longer occur.

The upgrade to Windows 11 is free for all users who run a Windows 10 installation with a valid product key and that meets the system requirements. These are stricter this time than with previous upgrades, also corrected for interim hardware developments. In particular, the presence of a TPM chip is a higher requirement, but also that of a reasonably recent processor. For example, seventh-generation Core processors are being dropped, but also the first-generation Ryzens for consumers. These are processors from 2016 and 2017 respectively. Windows 11 was released in 2021.