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From: Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Flip-Flops on Win11 requirements
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:27:41 +0200
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:

> Microsoft's Windows10 operating system was one of its most popular
> products. Windows 11, however, has seen a much slower uptake. This is
> in part because it requires built in TPM, a hardware encryption
> processor that not all computers have built in.

What happened to the fairly stringent CPU requirements? Were they lifted
earlier or something?

I have a couple of 2010-ish laptops with Windows 10 which I haven't used
in a few years. I guess I could keep the better one of them around still
although I don't really know what for...