Microsoft will bug Windows 11 users with watermarks if they bypass system requirements

pcgamer.com:

Microsoft has been experimenting again. This time sticking a watermark onto versions of Windows 11 running on systems that have bypassed its minimum system requirements. I mean, that's the whole purpose of its Insider program: to test different features on a wide variety of different machines out in the wild.  But it looks like this is one that's going to make it through testing to a final release patch.

Back in February, states the report on Sweclockers, it was reported by some Dev Channel users that a watermark, which stated «System requirements not met. Go to Settings to learn more,» was being dropped into the bottom right of the screen on incompatible systems. The Dev Channel is the most experimental of all the Insider Program channels, containing the most volatile Windows builds as well as a place where different features are tested, with many never seeing the light of day elsewhere.

There are also Beta and Release Preview Channels, which is where the watermark has more recently appeared. That would suggest this is one feature that's definitely passed the testing phase and has been greenlit by Microsoft for final release onto the public builds of Windows.

It's not a biggy, and reportedly does nothing other than sit in the bottom right corner taking up a little screen real estate. But then neither does the larger watermark which complains about you running a non-activated version of Windows, but that one doesn't just appear on your desktop, but will overlay on top of games, too. 

We don't yet know whether the system requirements watermark will do the same, but that would be really annoying if it does. I've disabled fTPM on my Ryzen 3600-based Win11 office machine, and it's not displaying anything on the same version