Comment on Will Microsoft drop the TPM requirement for Win 11 once Win 12 rolls around?
mark@infosec.pub 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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.