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Re:Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash by Goz3rr on Sunday June 27, 2021 @05:34PM (#27655661)
>the arbitrary red line drawn between two CPU generations

I've seen people theorize that it's because of the availability of UMIP instructions

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Re:Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash by sedatk on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:50AM (#27658235)
I don't believe that's the case, but I might be missing something. UMIP makes a system more secure, but it isn't a hard requirement for any feature-wise assurance? For example, TPM+UEFI+Secure Boot is required if Microsoft wants everyone to have full disk encryption by default, which makes sense. UMIP, not so much.
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Re:Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash by ColonelPhantom on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:43PM (#27656164)
According to WikiChip, UMIP got added in Zen2 (Ryzen 3000), while MS supports Zen+ (Ryzen 2000).
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Re:Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash by SSLy on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:44AM (#27659437)
Can't be true as Coffe Lake doesn't seem to support it yet win11 will work on that
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