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.

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[cmcmck]

Google are playing these games too.

Our present Chromebox, an Asus III is just over three years old and they're already claiming no further updates for this model will be available!

The previous one was nearly seven years old before they pulled this.

[andrewducker]

Three years is particularly annoying! At least my desktop will be almost 10 years old before it's phased out!