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Microsoft closes the door on Windows 11 supporting older hardware
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It's fairly trivial to bypass Microsoft's hardware requirements for windows 11 afaik. Just install via Rufus and click the relevant options. I agree with you that MS should have made these optional recommendations though, we shouldn't have to use third party tools.
microsoft keeps tightening the screws; there's no guarantee a loophole to do that will remain--but rather the opposite: they will disappear.
You can do that, but then the major updates MS pushes out twice a year won't install via Windows Update anymore.