Yesterday, Microsoft released Windows 11 build 22621 (22H2) to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview channel, which means we are one step closer to Windows 11 22H2, which Microsoft plans to arrive this fall.
However, judging by reports on Reddit, many users of hardware not supported by Microsoft can also get the upgrade, even Windows 10 users. It should be noted that Windows 10 also has a release preview channel to receive cumulative updates before the public release of Windows 10, but most users can already see the “Windows 11, 22H2 version ready” boost. But the problem here is that many people’s PCs are what Microsoft calls “unsupported hardware.”
For example, as shown in the picture above, Reddit user @AceRimmer412 got the Windows 11 22H2 upgrade push on a Windows 10 device equipped with an i5-7200U processor, which looks very confusing and cannot be ruled out as a bug.
Of course, not all Windows 11 Release Preview users who were not eligible for the Windows 11 upgrade received the update, and many showed that their devices were not compatible with Windows 11, possibly because they had run the PC Health Check app before.
Some media tests found that an old Dell Optiplex 7040 was also successfully pushed to Win11 22H2. The machine is equipped with an i7-6700 (3.4GHz), 16GB of memory, and an Intel HD 530 core display. In addition, another desktop computer equipped with a 6700K processor and a GTX1080 independent display also received an update push.
It’s unclear if all of these users have joined the Windows 10 release preview channel, but most of the users who responded were preview users. However, Microsoft has adopted a batch push method, so not everyone with the same old hardware will receive the update.
However, foreign media also gave another possibility, they believe that someone at Microsoft forgot to turn on the blacklist switch of the Windows Insider channel, thereby removing the restriction of “blocking the installation of Windows 11 on unsupported hardware”, but this bug Most likely it will be fixed in the next few days.
Windows 11 Build 22621 was released to the Beta channel as early as May 11, along with an SDK. In addition, Microsoft also provided ISO files for everyone to download at that time. Windows 11 22H2 has a lot of new features. For example, Microsoft is working on a new Start menu feature, a redesigned task manager, integrating Mica into more desktop apps, the return of drag-and-drop for the taskbar, and more.