Windows 11 won't support CPU's more than 3 years old

What is MS thinking not supporting CPU's that are not even remotely old yet? That means MOST people won't be able to upgrade. So dumb. I think windows should just support as many CPU's as possible, no matter how old.

Company I work for only just upgraded to windows 7 a couple of years ago. Not exactly sure what market they're aiming for with windows 11.

We still got XP running on a few PCs.. Not internet connected though, and we are in the process of replacing them, just met some hiccups on the road.

So I am guessing my 3900X by AMD is too old for Win11?

@horgen: No, if you had a 1900X it would be apparently.

Yay. I'm holding onto this one for another two years or more...

So just keep running win10? lol.

I never ran windows 8 / vista, and was just fine.

Not sure if I believe this.

I don't know for sure if it is, I heard about the program that MS used to tell you if your PC could run Win11 was a broken mess that didn't actually do anything, so this may not be true.

i never read that particular CPUs would be locked out by age.

possibly by making certain types of tech mandatory like particular SSE instructions, onboard TPM, AVX512, etc.