[tiwil]

I don't think Microsoft will lower the minimal requirements about Secure Boot and TPM 2.0.

There requirements are also on the Insider Program, where I am currently, and it is just no sense to setup them during one of the most important part of development: testing. Why should they reduce the number of possibile testers with these requirements? I mean, more testers more feedback received.

But as said by @Mashiro, there requirements are not hard blocking.

I am currently writing from Windows 11 Insider Preview installed on a "unsupported" hardware: everything is fine and working, just some bugs that are to be excepted on a insider build.

To be specific, there is a issue with Windows Defender that I am trying to figure out and understand if it is related to the missing TPM.

Or this can be a strategy from Microsoft to force old hardware user to change to new hardware. More new hardware sells = more license sold by Microsoft, especially for laptop where some brand give Windows for free. That could be it.

Talking about Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, are you doing some bypass method or it just works? My friend laptop unable to get the update (judged by Windows Health Check app) and he would like to learn more how to get Windows 11 with his old machine.