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by mrlonglong 1741 days ago
How come I currently have an instance of Windows 11 working just fine under VirtualBox?
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mycall 1741 days ago
Because it is not RTM. More restrictions on the way.
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mrlonglong 1740 days ago
Sigh. Already happened, went to update my Windows 11 instance to latest and I was greeted with a message TPM now required.

Hopefully some big corps will get annoyed and start twisting arms to make it optional. To upgrade computers can run to the millions.

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mrlonglong 1741 days ago
Why they they so hot on needing the TPM?
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mycall 1741 days ago
So they can sell more computers and Windows licenses.
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winthrowe 1740 days ago
Several reasons, but the biggest I see is Passwordless.

Windows 10 can act as a FIDO2 authenticator like a Yubikey, but needs a TPM to do so. They want this to be something that actually happens for the average user in windows 11.

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