News Microsoft patches TPM 2.0 bypass to prevent Windows 11 installs on PCs with unsupported CPUs

[Admin]

It has been discovered that Windows 11 Insider Build 27686 (Dilithium) has a patch that disables the '/product server' command line used by those without a TPM 2.0-supported CPU, permanently skipping the hardware verification process.

Microsoft patches TPM 2.0 bypass to prevent Windows 11 installs on PCs with unsupported CPUs : Read more

 

[USAFRet]

From the article:
"Windows 11 CPU compatibility begins from Intel 10th-gen"


From MS:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/w...pported/windows-11-supported-intel-processors
"Intel® Core™ i3-8100"

Fact checking....

 

[usertests]

The real trick is to install Linux.

 

[hotaru251]

and MS just made so much e-waste...

they should remove the req as it is barely any safer than non tpm for home users :|

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

It is funny that the EU got their panties in such a twist over the "e-waste" of Lightning cables that they mandated Apple stop using them and switch to USB-C yet they aren't saying a peep about Windows 11's unnecessarily tight restrictions (as evidenced by how it runs just fine on "unsupported hardware") creating an e-waste time bomb of millions of PCs which are still very fit for their intended purposes and could continue to be so for years to come, very few of which will be destined for proper recycling/mineral mining facilities.