There is a way around the compatibility fences by editing the Windows registry and installing trough an image-file but then you are on your own. I guess we get a couple of years before Microsoft tears of the band aid and leave us unsupported for good.

Even when Windows went från 32 bits to 64 bits architecture they offerad a compatibility mode and that seems to have been a bigger step than this. I will not upgrade my Windows of this reason and I´m sure I´m not alone. This will have the effect that a lot of users will get locked in on older systems unable to upgrade both operating systems and also applications. It´s a little strange that both Apple and Microsoft seems to leave a lot of their users behind. So it seems like it´s just not Apple and according to Alec DxO, who in practise closes the door for an upgrade on older systems through some system requirements. The system requirements for Windows 11 is set to more modest 1GHz and 2 kernels and 4GB memory but of some reasons most Intel i3, i5 and i7 are considered incompatible of some pretty fuzzy “instability” reasons.

I also have enough with disk and 8 GB memory. I have an i5-6400 2,7 GHz with 4 kernels that are 5 years but despite that not that bad when it comes to performance. There must be thousands and thousands of PC-processors in Intels i-series that doesn´t meet the standards.

Dxo photolab 4 system requirements