Update: After this article was published, Microsoft released a new version of the PC Health Check app, without documenting the fact that the tool had been revised. But when those eager would-be upgraders ran the compatibility check and got results like the one shown below on a system that appeared to meet every specification with ease? Ugh.įrustratingly, this tool doesn't appear to create a log file If the compatibility checker says your PC will run Windows 11, you're good to go. To cap things off, the official compatibility checker (included in the new PC Health Check app) that Microsoft released to its most eager fans on the day of the Big Reveal delivered its results without details. And in both cases the details are incomplete.
The official Windows 11 System Requirements page has one set of specs, while the Compatibility for Windows 11 documentation that the Windows engineering team prepared for Microsoft partners as part of the Compatibility Cookbook for Windows tells (update: well, told) a different story. Here are ZDNet's current top picks for a variety of use cases.įor starters, two pieces of core documentation disagree with one another.
