Microsoft offered Windows 11 upgrades to systems that did not meet requirements

Microsoft incorrectly offered upgrades to Windows 11 to users with systems that did not meet the minimum requirements. This reportedly even happened with a VM without a TPM module and with 2GB of RAM, which is half of the minimum.

That last reports a user on Twitter. Those who accepted the unintended offer noticed that the upgrade could not be completed. Microsoft now reports that the problem has been resolved, but does not report 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 running a Windows 10 installation with a valid product key and that meets the system requirements. This time they are stricter than with previous upgrades, also corrected for interim hardware developments. The presence of a TPM chip in particular is a higher requirement, but also that of a fairly 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.