Looks like I won't be getting Windows 11 any time soon

[andrewducker]

Microsoft decided to make TPM* mandatory for Windows 11.

My computer, despite being bought in 2016, and having a processor released in 2015, doesn't support this**.

So I guess I'll be stuck on Windows 10 for the forseeable. At least the minimum requirements for Windows 10 were basically the same as for Windows 7***

I guess that by the time Windows 10 goes out of support (October 2025) I'll have had this PC for a decade. But it works well, runs every game I want to play, and it feel very wrong to obsolete it because MS put in a requirement for some technology that they could totally run without if they wanted to.****

Ah well, hopefully something will change in the next 4 years!

*A security technology that verifies that your operating system hasn't been tampered with by hackers.
**Intel i5-6600k on an Asus Z170m-Plus motherboard.
*** 1Ghz processor, 1GB RAM, not that I'd want to run either OS in that little RAM.
****They could even check your motherboard/CPU was recent enough to support it, and insist you turned it on if so.

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

My guess is that the TPM tech requirement is driven by NIST 800 171 and CMMC compliance. Lots of things seem to be.

[andrewducker]

I can understand saying that new computers need to support that or ones used in secure facilities. But and awful lot of old computers will either suddenly get a lot less secure or need to be thrown away.

[danieldwilliam]

Yeah... and CMMC applies to Covered Unclassified Information which is close to the UK's Official-Sensitive marking so it is is broader than just secure facilities.

A lot of the security stuff at the moment seems to be about making it *very* easy for larger corporations to tick a very long series of CMMC requirements in one simple, easy to cash, cheque.