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Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 268 points 4 weeks ago (26 children)

I mean, they could solve it by not making the mandatory successor an ad-laden, AI-infested, personal data harvesting, privacy-nightmare shit show. That would be a start. And also relax whatever the artificial requirement is that makes a lot of Win10 machines incompatible with 11.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (11 children)

You can bypass the requirements since yeah, they were always artificial. I believe Rufus has an option when creating Win11 install USBs to remove the TPM and other requirements.

But then again, it's nice, because all I need to make sure Microsoft doesn't secretly update my Win10 machine in the night to Win11 is to turn off the TPM in the BIOS.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

You can bypass the requirements since yeah, they were always artificial.

I think bypassing these checks would eventually render your PC vulnerable? for example, bitlocker support being void for computers that relies on TPM 2.0