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Microsoft closes the door on Windows 11 supporting older hardware
(www.theverge.com)
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024
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I feel that this is diverging from your original comment, but okay, Windows 11 -- as with all prior releases of Windows -- has minimum CPU and memory requirements. That isn't what the article text is discussing, but fair enough.
But I don't see any association with that and AI. This isn't parallel processing hardware being discussed.
The one big eater of CPU power in future Windows will most likely be AI. Most of which will probably be useless for the user, which is a common problem with Windows "features" in recent years.
I can easily see a Microsoft AI engine churning the users data in order to determine which ads to serve - in the start menu, the screen backgrouns, the login screen, or as blatant popups. If people notice that such a thing is seriously eating into their machines' power, they will try harder to kill this. Therefor it is the interest of Microsoft that the user has more than enough power. And this is just one example.