The Windows 11 TPM Scam...
Microsoft requires computers to support TPM 2 to install windows 11 and claims its vital for security and is prepared to sentence some 400 million PC's to death. This is unconscionable!
There is no reason that Microsoft cannot support computers with earlier TPM versions that most PC's do support. In fact, many owners purchased their current computer only a few years ago. Some manufactures only fitted TPM 2 to their computers around 2023, and as such should remain O.S supported for 10 years. (Microsoft policy is to provide support for 10 years.) They should therefore continue support for Windows 10 for up to another 5 years. (If you purchased a PC since 2020 and it doesn't have TPM2, Microsoft should support it until 2030 with Windows 10 or provide a Windows 11 upgrade.)
Experts have advised that TPM 1 is still sufficiently secure and the enhancements that TPM 2 offers are not essential for security at present. Microsoft could easily allow computers with TPM 1 onto Windows 11 with no less security, perhaps with warnings, than currently available on Windows 10.
Why then are they being so stubborn? TMP 2 allows Microsoft to have much greater control of your PC by embedding boot keys that they own, forcing the creation of a Microsoft account, and among other things can prevent installing a different system and has been seen to remove any dual boot operating systems.
For full details read article by Stacy Higgenbothem to Microsoft on these issues. (Link to PDF available on the site below.)
Good News (for some)
Some owners have discovered that their non windows 11 compatible computers have a software version of TPM and that it can be upgraded to TPM 2 with a simple BIOS update from the manufacturer. Perhaps ask Chat-GPT if your motherboard or model can support TPM 2.