The new version of Microsoft’s operating system is an essential requirement for Intel’s Alder Lake CPU generation, which introduced a new architecture that distributes the load between Efficiency Cores and Performance Cores – to optimize for each given task. For creative professionals – especially audio producers and engineers – moving to a new operating system is often met with hesitation. However, the XMG STUDIO has been fully tested and optimised for use with Windows 11 and we have even migrated some of our in-house content production to the XMG STUDIO. ASIO drivers for professional audio interfaces work flawlessly, several DAWs and dozens of VSTs have been successfully tested – alongside game dev environments, content creation and streaming tools, VJ software and VR apps.