Microsoft's disclaimer warns about installing Windows 11 on unsupported devices

Recently, Microsoft increased their efforts to push a Windows 11 upgrade to Windows 10 users. However, there are also users who install the new OS on unsupported devices and that may lead to incompatibility issues. Of course, Microsoft’s approach in this case is to recommend buying a new, Windows 11 compatible PC.

Now, Microsoft issued a new disclaimer for users who installed Windows 11 on unsupported devices. They want you to acknowledge the consequences of this action:

This PC doesn’t meet the minimum system requirements for running Windows 11 – these requirements help ensure a more reliable and higher quality experience. Installing Windows 11 on this PC is not recommended and may result in compatibility issues. If you proceed with installing Windows 11, your PC will no longer be supported and won’t be entitled to receive updates. Damages to your PC due to lack of compatibility aren’t covered under the manufacturer warranty. By selecting Accept, you are acknowledging that you read and understand this statement.

Microsoft’s warning clearly mentions that your PC won’t receive any updates and won’t be supported, and that will lead to compatibility issues. Moreover, any damages to your PC caused by these incompatibilities won’t be covered by the manufacturer warranty.

The Redmond giants wants you to check if your PC meets the minimum requirements before installing Windows 11 by using the Health Check app.

They also recommend going back to Windows 10 if you’re facing that situation by going to Settings > System > Recovery and select Go back from the Recovery options.

However, that is possible only for a maximum of 10 days after the upgrade. After that period, it will not possible to use this feature. In this case, the only solution would be a clean install of Windows 10 or another OS. But if you don’t have that Windows 10 old ISO, you will be stuck.

If your Windows 11 is not compatible with your configuration, it will display the disclaimer above during the installation. However, that will only happen if you are using the official installer. A third-party installer such as Rufus might go around this warning.

What will be the consequence of this disclaimer? We will learn pretty soon, but we might whiteness the same situation that happen last year when many PCs were bricked by the Windows 11 upgrade.

Of course, we don’t recommend upgrading to Windows 11 if your PC is not ready for it, especially with the latest Windows 11 24H2 bugs.

Did you install Windows 11 on an unsupported PC? Let us know about your story in the comments below. We’ve learned about this from Neowin.