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Microsoft has been caught scrubbing its own documentation outlining a process users could take to install Windows 11 on an unsupported machine.

Microsoft has quietly removed official guidance for bypassing Windows 11's hardware requirements from its support documentation, as reported by Neowin. You can still see what the instructions looked like before the purge on the Internet Archive.

Microsoft has quietly deleted its official instructions on how to install Windows 11 on an unsupported Windows 10 machine. The company originally posted the instructions in an October 2021 support article,

You'll upgrade that aging piece of kit and you'll like it For the past three years, Microsoft documented a way to run Windows 11 on PCs that lack Trusted Platform Module 2.0 hardware - but that workaround has now disappeared from its help page.

In the first instance of Microsoft stopping people performing unsupported upgrades, Neowin spotted that the company had removed a block of text from its "Ways to install Windows 1

As the end of support for Windows 10 draws ever closer, Microsoft is taking subtle steps to convince users to buy new hardware. For example, one entry about bypassing the Windows 11 TPM 2.0 hardware lock was quietly removed from a support page (spotted by Neowin).