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Microsoft wasn't joking about the Dev Channel not enforcing hardware checks: Windows 11 pops up on Pi, mobile phone

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So what’s with the TPM malarky?
The enthusiast community has thumbed a nose at Microsoft’s hardware requirements for Windows 11, with Insider builds demonstrated on Raspberry Pi hardware and the inevitable mobile phone. The latter will delight Windows Mobile holdouts, still mourning the death of their beloved operating system and stung by Microsoft’s latest take on a telephone, which runs Android. A video surfaced yesterday showing the operating system running on a Lumia 950XL, inadvertently demonstrating that the operating system is less than ideal on the small screen, even if such wonders as screen rotation appear to work well. “In case you got doubts,” tweeted the author ( a Dev botherer of Lumia hardware), “yes, it does do calls lol.” More usable, however, is Windows 11 on a Raspberry Pi. A post on Twitter seemed to show the soon-to-be fussy OS up and running on one of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s finest, which, we’re pretty sure, is not noted for being equipped with chippery listed in Microsoft’s now infamous compatibility list.

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