I believe Windows 11 is going to drop IA-32 support. This is the reason I think no 32-bit ISO for build 21996 was made available -- there is no 32-bit/IA-32 version of 21996 available. If I'm right, this means that on June 24, when MS publishes ISOs, there won't be 32-bit ones. This would make Win11 the first client Windows release to remove support for older IA-32 CPUs.
Maybe some people should stop rubbing and playing with their crystal balls ? @ Mods ........ what about a new section ....... called ' Computer orakel ' ? For the people that make predictions .
Build 21996 was not official MS release, it was a build supplied for OEM testing which got leaked and OEM ship system with 64-bit OS. As abbodi1406 posted earlier here reference to x86 can be seen.
This would be the best thing to happen. x86 is a dying architecture and was outdated even at the launch of Windows 10.
Tha'ts precisely my point. Today, even the weakest machines (think slow, dual-core, soldered-in Intel Atom with just 1GB of RAM) are x86-64. Even most ARM devices now are 64-bit. As for there being 32-bit Win11 builds on Microsoft's internal servers, that doesn't mean those will be distributed to the public. However of course I may be squarely wrong here. I'm just a Windows enthusiast.
For example, I'm sure there were 32-bit internal builds of Windows Server 2008 R2... However they never saw the outside of Microsoft. (Unless a few of them got leaked of course...)
I have been running this build ever since it was first leaked. I found the link here ~15 min after it was posted. I installed and as always linked to my MS account. I have never had a problem. On my MS account it lists my build number correctly, but my OS is listed as Windows 10.