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by mycall 1741 days ago
Because it is not RTM. More restrictions on the way.
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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.

Why they they so hot on needing the TPM?
So they can sell more computers and Windows licenses.
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.