Re: Microsoft Flip-Flops on Win11 requirements

Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 21:27 this Thursday (GMT):

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
>

Microsoft's Windows10 operating system was one of its most popular
products. Windows 11, however, has seen a much slower uptake. This is
in part because it requires built in TPM, a hardware encryption
processor that not all computers have built in.

>
What happened to the fairly stringent CPU requirements? Were they lifted
earlier or something?
>
I have a couple of 2010-ish laptops with Windows 10 which I haven't used
in a few years. I guess I could keep the better one of them around still
although I don't really know what for...

I think they tried to inflate the requirements to get people to buy a
new computer, then panicked when they realized people were staying on
W10.
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