News Windows 11's TPM Requirement Surprised PC Builders, but You Can Enable It in BIOS

[Colif]

Windows 11 enables security by design from the chip to the cloud | Microsoft Security Blog

Over the last year, PCs have kept us connected to family, friends, and enabled businesses to continue to run. This new hybrid work paradigm has got us thinking about how we will continue to deliver the best possible quality, experience, and security for the more than 1 billion people who use...

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[electronicsguy]

The requirement is non-sense. Windows should run on any computer system. If I don't care about security on it, why shouldn't I be able to install it?

 

[electronicsguy]

For end consumers, TPM is behind the scenes but is still very relevant. TPM is used for Windows Hello, Windows Hello for Business, and in the future, will be a component of many other key security features in Windows. TPM secures the PIN, helps encrypt passwords, and builds on our overall Windows 10 experience story for security as a critical pillar. Using Windows on a system with a TPM enables a deeper and broader level of security coverage."

and... I don't use any of the Windows hello nonsense!

 

[Sleepy_Hollowed]

I've been using a Ryzen 7 2700X + X470 with fTPM enabled for 3 years and I've never once had to turn off the fTPM.

a couple of mobos I have basically make you when updating it, which is really, really annoying.

they don’t if you use the external chip TPM, but one of them literally has that under the video card, so it’s that or a video card.

 

[Wishbone1]

7 hours after reveal, these are questions we will discover answers to in coming days I guess.

If win 10 runs on PC, no reason win 11 won't. I seen people run it on really old dell laptops.

Thats the difference between Mac ,After 7 you can,t update to the next Os.Where as you can use the latest Windows on a really old PC.I suppose Apple want you to buy a new machine.

 

[dorsai]

A lot of people failing the compatibility test are failing it because they are still running MBR instead of GPT on their boot drive...especially those that upgraded straight from Win 7 to 10.

Pretty much any PC built in the last few years should have the TPM requirement covered through the CPU via BIOS firmware.

The real issue here is why Microsoft was stupid enough to put out a compatibility tool that doesn't actually indicate why your PC fails the test 🙄

 

[Harry_Wild]

I am in the mindset now to buy a new PC that already has Windows 11 Pro preloaded! Will have to wait till the 10th generation CPU has gone done in cost too! I can now only browse at schools, electronic stores and other places to get acquainted with Windows 11 Pro since I have to wait it out. May end up switch to Linus.

 

[USAFRet]

I am in the mindset now to buy a PC that already has Windows 11 Pro preloaded! Will have to wait till the 10th generation CPU has gone done in cost too! I can only browse at schools, electronic stores and other places to get acquainted with Windows 11 Pro.

Christmastime, at the earliest.

 

[Colif]

The real issue here is why Microsoft was stupid enough to put out a compatibility tool that doesn't actually indicate why your PC fails the test

they have updated the tool but it can still get it wrong, reporting pc as not having secure boot on when it is.
It at least tells you why now... it might be wrong but it at least says why.

it was done the typical MS way, no clear instructions of what might fail you, no information saying you need to be using GPT to upgrade to it...

I don't have any proof but it feels to me WIn 11 can't install on MBR drives, as you have to have secure boot enabled and it is mutually exclusive to CSM in some motherboard bios, you can't do one and have the other. So if that is true, it explains why people on MBR are being failed.

MS just need to hire some humans to write their instructions for everyone else.

Win 10 introduced the need to install win 10 on GPT if PC was capable of it
Win 11 seems to be enforcing it and removing ability to run MBR and what they classify as non safe platforms.

Rude awakening... not all versions of windows are/were as easy to upgrade to as win 10 was. every 2nd version of win 10 adds new barriers and they are called bad, until people get the next version which has the same barriers but 5 years later, maybe the PC being used is better than the one you had 5 years before.

anyone on 10 who updated from win 7 and who hasn't clean installed probably should just to get all the features of win 10 now.

 

[Wishbone1]

This guy is trying to put Windows 11 on a 2nd gen Intel machine?Wow that is really old.😳

View: https://youtu.be/5rDJyMXbPdE?t=27
. This one is from my fav oxzzy youtube r Brain.

View: https://youtu.be/efcYtaqNLsU?t=42
. I don,t think much of his fake accent talking to Microsoft😀