[greatgib]

Hopefully I don't use windows, but it is incredible that it does not piss off more people that you can't use an entire OS just because of a hw module required only for a small feature used by a minority of users. Mostly corporate.

But if you think long term, it makes sense for Microsoft:

They dream about having the same control as apple and Google have on their devices. The problem is that nothing prevent users to be the master of their machine and doing whatever they want with it. With the tpm module, they can start to restrict some things to you on your own computer, controlled by the tpm, and as an user you will have not way to do anything about it. Like copy your data to another computer.