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Re: Look like my computer doesn't support Windows 11. :(
07/11/21 05:18 AM
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> The buzzwords these days is of recycling and reuse, rather than throwing things away
> even though they still work. So of course Microsoft wants everyone to throw away all
> the old computers and buy ones that happen to suit their particular operating system.
The trouble is Microsoft has to appease their biggest customers – the PC vendors (they buy OEM licenses to bundle Windows). The PC vendors made no secret of their unhappiness when the minimum system requirements didn’t change from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Without increased system requirements, there was a lot less incentive for people to buy new PCs, so they lost out on their cut of the upgrade cycle. The TPM requirement drops support for a lot of machines older than about four years, which will appease the PC vendors.
Plenty of people at Microsoft didn’t want to release Windows 10 for 32-bit x86 CPUs either, but at the time there were relatively recent Atom/Pentium CPUs without 64-bit capability. They’ve decided now that it’s not worth maintaining the kernel code to support 32-bit x86 any more. This also lets them assume SSE2 is a baseline feature, etc. It simplifies a lot of things.
As far as I can tell, the only actual feature that depends on the TPM being present is “Windows Hello” biometric login (this is also the source of the requirements for cameras on notebook/tablet PCs for Windows 11). I wouldn’t really consider this to be an essential feature, they could’ve easily made it optional, and only enabled it if suitable hardware is present. Requiring it is really just a move to appease the PC vendors for a few more years.
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