Windows 11 Won't Run on Surface Pro 3 and 4

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I've just been told by Microsoft that my two Surface Pro's, a Surface Pro 3 and a Surface Pro 4. The problem, apparently, are the CPUs. These are Microsoft designed devices, not particularly old (I have 10 year old laptops that run Windows 10). Either Windows 11 is a pig or Microsoft cheaped out on the processors for their own hardware. If they don't fix this, I doubt I will be buying another Microsoft laptop.

You can do a clean install from USB on the SP4 without any modifications. It has TPM2.0 but the CPU is too "old" according to E-waste MS. But I could install 11 with no protests and could run Windows update afterwards to get all the needed drivers.

W11 however does not work as good as 10, e.g. auto hibernate does not work.

My SP4 has the well known sleep of death bug that MS never bothered to fix, so I can't use regular sleep or screen time out and can only rely on hibernate, but only manual hibernation works now. Had they ever bothered to fix this I might've considered getting a newer Surface Pro, but because of this arrogance the SP4 was my first and last surface device.

See Installing Windows 11 on devices that don't meet minimum system requirements (microsoft.com) and Ways to install Windows 11 (microsoft.com)

I don't recommend doing this, and you need to be prepared to clean install back to Windows 10.

That said, MY Surface Pro 3 has been in the Insiders Dev channel since day 1 and I am not seeing crashes or issues. I'm quite frankly surprised as to how well Windows 11 runs on this SP3.

Again, this is all at your own risk.

I appreciate the two replies, but I don't think they recognize the real problem here.

When Windows 10 came out and I upgraded older laptops, their performance actually improved. In my opinion (and I think it was also the opinion of the community at the time) Windows 10 did more with less.

It's nice to know I can go against Microsoft's recommendations and install Windows 11 on my Surface Pro 3 and 4 by twisting myself into knots and then having to deal with any technical problems that arise on my own. I have a degree in computer science and I've worked through a very large number of computers and operating systems in the past 50 years. I can do that sort of thing if I have to.

But I've drifted away from being a techie, first into finance, then into teaching high school debate and running tournaments. Microsoft work-arounds are not what I want to do. I prefer the path of least resistance.

Windows 10 was a performance improvement. If Microsoft does not recommend Windows 11 for laptops it designed and sold within the last 5 years, then they are telling me that compared to 10, 11 is a CPU hog. What other conclusion is there?