When you’ve got a Home windows 10 pc, Microsoft will give you a free improve to Home windows 11. Offered the {hardware} of the Home windows 10 pc is appropriate, in any other case Home windows 11 will refuse the set up. Microsoft has now launched a lot of Home windows 10 PCs that have been beforehand not allowed to put in the improve for the Home windows 11 improve.
Microsoft had been denying Home windows 10 computer systems with an Eleventh-generation Intel Core Processor and Intel SST driver model 10.29.0.5152 or 10.30.0.5152 (the SST stands for “Sensible Sound Know-how”) the improve to Home windows 11 since November 2021. With this {hardware} driver mixture, recurring blue screens of loss of life may happen after putting in Home windows 11.
Resourceful Home windows customers may solely remedy this downside by updating the Intel SST drivers themselves. Those that did this independently have been then capable of swap to Home windows 11 freed from cost. Nevertheless, Microsoft refused to improve all different PC house owners with the described mixture of CPU and driver.
As of as we speak, nevertheless, this downside has typically been solved. Any further, all affected Home windows 10 customers with the chip and driver mixture described above can obtain and set up the most recent Intel SST drivers through the Home windows replace perform.
As quickly as Home windows 10 has put in the motive force replace, you possibly can improve to Home windows 11. Nevertheless, Microsoft emphasizes that it may take one other two days earlier than Home windows 10 gives the improve to Home windows 11. You’ll find the official launch of the Home windows 10 PCs beforehand blocked for the improve on this standing web page from Microsoft.
It isn’t identified why Microsoft took till April 12, 2024 to lastly make the drivers, which have lengthy since been tailored by Intel, obtainable through Home windows Replace and elevate the improve block.
Nevertheless, if Home windows 10 doesn’t provide the motive force replace in any case, PC house owners ought to contact their PC producer for the motive force replace.
Home windows 10 is clearly within the lead
It stays to be seen whether or not it will considerably improve the market share of Home windows 11. In accordance with Statcounter, Home windows 10 remains to be by far the most well-liked desktop working system (March 2024: 69.05 % market share amongst all Home windows methods). Home windows 10 even managed to achieve market share barely in March 2024, whereas Home windows 11 misplaced market share barely (March 2024: 26.68 % market share amongst all Home windows methods).
In accordance with Statcounter, all Home windows methods collectively had a market share of 72.47 % in March 2024. MacOS is effectively behind with 14.68 %.
This text initially appeared on PC Welt and was translated from German to English.