[mavhc]

No it's not, no one not running a shared cloud service cares about such things.

Why doesn't Microsoft explain exactly why they require new CPUs, what in TPM 2.0 they're using that's not in 1.2, etc.

[selfhoster11]

Except that most machines have arbitrary remote code execution via JavaScript in browser. I don't know how easily that can be exploited, but I wouldn't be surprised if ignoring the potential of this happening would bite us in the backside at some point.

[mavhc]

If that was why, they should say that, they don't