[jsnell]

> It's very reasonable, given this, that they would seek to force the upgrade cycle to occur where it clearly otherwise might not.

How is restricting which machines can run Windows 11 "forcing an upgrade cycle" on the software? It's clearly doing the opposite, by making Windows 11 upgrades less likely.

The real motivation people have for upgrading to Windows 11 is Windows 10 going out of support. And the EOL date is totally orthogonal to the TPM requirement.

[timewizard]

On the consumer front, sure, but there are large contractual buyers who have requirements for TPM presence and several software policy systems can enforce it.