This could be more than a minor inconvenience given the Microsoft has also announced the end of Windows 10 support is inked in for later this year. The hardware in question is the

The Windows 11 installation can bypass TPM requirement by modifying a specific policy. Microsoft recommended it, but then it backtracked it.

A support document on Microsoft's website no longer details how to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, but here are the instructions.

Microsoft has removed a support document from 2021 that taught users how to bypass the Windows 11 hardware requirements. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

It appears that Microsoft doesn't want you to use the bypass any longer. Neowin spotted an update to a Microsoft support page with wording about the bypass removed. You can even check the page on The Wayback Machine to see what it looked like until a few days ago.

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

When Windows 11 launched in 2021, Microsoft provided an official method for installing the operating system on devices that didn't meet its stringent hardware requirements. However,

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.