After months of publicity, finally, Microsoft announces the official release date of Windows 11. The new version will be available on October 5 and will arrive as a free update, but it won’t run on all computers. We tell you the requirements to run Windows 11 on your PC.
Microsoft revealed that the operating system Windows 11 requires some minimum conditions necessary to be installed. That is, we cannot just assume that our computers will run this software without problems; there is a possibility that you will have to upgrade your hardware first.
Microsoft also announced that application support for Android will not be available at the launch of Windows 11, this feature will be available first in a preview version of Windows Insider in the “next few months”.
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Regarding compatibility, Microsoft noted that to run Windows 11, the PC must have an active security chip called Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (TPM), We tell you how to know if your computer is compatible.
The TPM chip is the technology designed to securely store login information on the computer. But this chip is not always on by default.
How to verify that your PC will be compatible with Windows 11
To start you need to know if your PC has the TPM chip. TPM 2.0 technology launched in October 2014. Therefore, only CPUs from the last five to seven years have the security chip. To know if your computer is compatible with Windows 11 just follow these simple steps:
1. Go to the search bar Windows 10 and type: tpm.msc, If your PC has the chip, an option will appear that says: “tpm.msc Common Console Document Microsoft“.
2. The other requirement that your PC must meet to be compatible with Windows 11 is to have the following features:
Ready! you already know how to verify if your PC is compatible with the latest generation of the operating system of Microsoft, Windows 11, which will arrive on October 5.