Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap
hamid@lemmy.world 6 months agoYou’re probably not correct about TPM and secure boot being dropped. Microsoft’s entire enterprise line of security products including Intune and Defender for Endpoint are integrated to it and Windows Entra uses it for their certificate based enrollment and authentication. This is their primary profit drivers, not consumers.
Rednax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Disabling the tpm requirement is just a registry hack in win 10, or a selectable option when creating an install usb with rufus.
I think they will make a simple calculation; What is going to cost more: The bad PR of nolonger updating 240 million pc’s, or accepting that a small portion of your users does not have tpm?
They haven’t stopped advanced users from installing win11 on older hardware so far. So no loss there. I also doubt they lose enterprise money if they allow win10 to upgrade regardless, as tpm is now well entrenched as the default on new hardware.