Windows 11: TPMs and Digital Sovereignty

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Usually MS always tries to make complicated API and programming details with incompatibilities to justify and force these issues. And other projects like QT having special Win10 builds, etc. The changes are superficial or trivial, but it creates forward compatibility issues.

You have to wonder how many "features" are just forward compatibility tricks to force new DRM into Windows. Like atom0s says, emulating a lot of this is usually possible, depending on how well the complicated it. Probably a reason they redid the video card model in Win10 as well.

I imagine they will leave the TPM 2 stuff disable-able for testing, as putting in that requirement and the processor requirements would dramatically reduce the quality of the testing. They will probably initially release even with it easily able to be removed. Then after a year when enough people switch to Windows 11, they will enforce it. Microsoft usually does things slowly and steadily, not all dissimilar to the way powerful clever governments erode power from the people inch by inch over a drawn out period of time. But everyone sees the writing on the wall.

I'll probably stick with Windows 10 as long as possible, so long as it is under support at least.