Re: I wonder...
"Windows 11 is not disabled for VMs - it installed easily through Parallels on my 10 year old iMac."
Yes, it isn't gratuitously disabled for VMs, but the VM needs to meet all the hardware requirements and I think a clean VirtualBox VM struggles with that. There are some instructions on the interwebs about how to hack the Win11 installation so that it works. It may not even be necessary anymore, I don't know. My own Win11 VirtualBox VM was created a few months ago. However, without the excuse that I need to check that my stuff still works, I can't think of a good reason to upgrade.
The interesting question is what happens in 2025 when all this "legacy" hardware is still going strong and MS want to turn off support for Win10. The original decision to require certain hardware for Win11 must have been made pre-pandemic and pre-chip-shortage, when it must have seemed fairly reasonable (to an MS exec) to suppose that pretty much everyone would be running on newer hardware by 2025.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
