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0 pointstimewizard1y ago0 comments

Microsoft makes Xbox and the Surface. They are one of the largest consumer hardware manufacturers in the space.

Anyways Microsoft was clearly very irritated when everyone wanted to stick with Windows 7, perceiving that Windows 8 was worse in every way, and that Windows 10 wasn't a significant enough upgrade to justify the effort especially considering all the added telemetry they added to the product.

It's very reasonable, given this, that they would seek to force the upgrade cycle to occur where it clearly otherwise might not.

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jsnell1y ago

> It's very reasonable, given this, that they would seek to force the upgrade cycle to occur where it clearly otherwise might not.

How is restricting which machines can run Windows 11 "forcing an upgrade cycle" on the software? It's clearly doing the opposite, by making Windows 11 upgrades less likely.

The real motivation people have for upgrading to Windows 11 is Windows 10 going out of support. And the EOL date is totally orthogonal to the TPM requirement.

timewizardOP1y ago

On the consumer front, sure, but there are large contractual buyers who have requirements for TPM presence and several software policy systems can enforce it.

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