Comment on Will Microsoft drop the TPM requirement for Win 11 once Win 12 rolls around?
mark@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Microsoft doesn’t care about you upgrading your personal computer. they care about business licenses. Enterprise pays the bills, and enterprise computers have all had TPM for ages. I don’t see any reason for them to make a change. consumers buying a new os for an existing computer is a drop in the bucket
Adequately_Insane@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, and then there are many enterprises that still use XP (edge case, but it may be well hundreds of thousands still) or Win 7 (majority). It is not all smooth sailing in enterprise level either, many companies are upgrade averse, and if the stuff works, then why upgrade it.
Oisteink@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Because of missing support and updates. These machines are not their concern though - they are running obsolete software and/or hardware that’s incompatible with an upgrade. No matter the requirements for tpm on win 11.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Because it’s cheaper to sell them back then support all the bullshit and replace batteries every damn week whenever anybody complains about having a slow computer. As well as an easy way to manage money. You just lease the machines, send them off, and if there is a problem the vendor deals with shipping, troubleshooting, and all the labor managing an older device.