<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">An Apple a day keeps those doctors away, (especially a Mac)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marty Kafka<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 21, 2021, at 10:06 AM, Michael Alexander <<a href="mailto:mna.ma@yahoo.com" class="">mna.ma@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">… and maybe some of the hardware will be Microsoft-branded.</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""> – Mike A<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(113, 95, 250); padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">On Thursday, October 21, 2021, 8:17 AM, Smita Desai <<a href="mailto:smitausa@gmail.com" class="">smitausa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv5459157671" class=""><div class="">My laptop also do not meet the minimum hardware requirements and hence can’t be updated to Windows 11. They want us all to buy new hardware and boost the economy🤓<div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="">Smita Desai <br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="yiv5459157671yqt5217122837" id="yiv5459157671yqtfd95734"><br clear="none" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 21, 2021, at 6:01 AM, Mitchell I. Wolfe <<a href="mailto:mwolfe@vinebrook.com" class="">mwolfe@vinebrook.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></blockquote></div></div><div class="yiv5459157671yqt5217122837" id="yiv5459157671yqtfd96638"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div class="yiv5459157671yqt5217122837" id="yiv5459157671yqtfd76172"></div><div class=""><div class="yiv5459157671yqt5217122837" id="yiv5459157671yqtfd97932"><p class="">I received a recent automatic OS update for Windows 10 which included a Windows 11 prerequisite check.</p><p class="">After navigating<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">start -> Settings -> Update & Security</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>saw this message:</p><p class=""><strong class=""> This PC doesn't meet all the system requirements for Windows 11.</strong></p><p class="">All my PCs - including a fairly recent Microsoft Surface - showed this message.</p><p class="">In general, I don't bother to do major upgrades unless there is a compelling reason. If I want Windows 11, I'll probably buy a new PC with Windows 11 pre-installed. Hardware is cheap.</p><p class="">Microsoft has recently published an end date of support for Windows 10 as October 14, 2025, so we should be good for at least 4 more years at this point.</p><p class="">-- Mitch Wolfe</p><p id="yiv5459157671reply-intro" class="">On 2021-10-20 15:44, <a href="mailto:palbin24@yahoo.com" class="">palbin24@yahoo.com</a> wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0px 0.4em; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin: 0px;" class=""><div id="yiv5459157671replybody1" class=""><div class="">Eager for Windows 11? 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