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A clever way to maximize the chances that your computer gets bricked on a future Patch Tuesday.


It’s really not


Some of the checks are around CPU features that they don’t currently use but may use in the future. And CPUs don’t typically respond super gracefully to being asked to execute instructions they don’t understand.


I’ll bet you $100 my supposedly unsupported cpu is never kicked off of windows 11. There’s just no chance.




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