Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11

Microsoft has lifted a 29-month compatibility hold that prevented some Windows 10 systems from upgrading to Windows 11 due to an issue with an Intel Smart Sound Technology driver. November 2021 seems a long time ago. At the time, Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta and a plan to reorganize Facebook around the metaverse concept, …

[Catkin]

I'm sure both of the people desperate to switch to Windows 11 but held back due this issue will be thrilled.

[b0llchit]

Just thrilled? They will enjoy the ultimate sounds of a new(er) OS were potential hearing damage will be supplied by the upgrade due to excessive yelling.

[Anonymous Coward]

Right, got it

Installing SST version 10.29.0.5152. That's in case the BOFH unsets the Target Release Version that I set.

[idiotsavant]

Those drivers have been available for ~2 years

That's the real story: why continue blocking the upgrade for so long when Intel released fixed drivers ages ago.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Those drivers have been available for ~2 years

Well, Microsoft only has 1 tester, and it took them 2 years to work through their backlog. ;-)

[Mike Lewis]

Re: Those drivers have been available for ~2 years

Microsoft has a tester?

[Sampler]

Re: Those drivers have been available for ~2 years

I believe they call them users...

[Usermane]

Re: Those drivers have been available for ~2 years

As well as Guinea pigs.

[Mike Flex]

Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11

Rather a click-bait title.

This only applies to a specific audio driver. All those older PCs without the right CPU or TPM version? Tough.

[Sampler]

Re: Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11

Nah, you just download the ISO from MS and choose in the menu to forego CPU and TPM requirements and it'll happily install away...

[Spazturtle]

Re: Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11

And then it will brick itself when it updates to the upcoming 24H2 update that rips a lot of old code out of the kernel and makes the soft requirements a hard requirement.

[stewwy]

Re: Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11

Finaly! A date for the Year of the Linux Desktop!

[Michael Hoffmann]

Ye naysayers be gone!

It is hard for me to describe my heartfelt relief that *finally* this issue has been solved!

Without that driver I could not live! Without that driver Windows 11 was an empty soulless shell of an operating system!

Now, at long last I shall update at once!

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OK, I'm really bad at this, aren't I? No stand-up or Thespian pursuits for me. :'(