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Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
(www.xda-developers.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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Maximise profits and minimise losses. My guess is that someone important at Microsoft thinks that this will do just that, and if not that, will make them, personally, a lot of money. That person has no-one who will dare challenge their authority and so we go down this road.
They (that individual or Microsoft as a whole) almost certainly have a stake in the companies that provide newer hardware, and if they didn't before this decision, they will have by now.
It theoretically makes Micosoft's job easier too. A huge chunk of backwards compatibility maintenance goes out of the window, if you'll pardon the pun.
"Oh you have 5 year old hardware? We don't support that."
Sounds fairly similar to Apple's business model if you think about it that way.