On the off chance that you own a more seasoned PC and were expecting to abstain from purchasing new equipment equipped for running Windows 11, then I have some awful news for you. Microsoft isn't moving on the equipment necessities expected to introduce Windows 11 on existing equipment. No TPM 2.0? No Windows 11 for you!
Microsoft Will not Move on Windows 11 Help
As an update, Microsoft is finishing support for Windows 10 in October 2025, many individuals actually running the operating system should purchase new equipment. This is because of the prerequisites Microsoft organized to try and run Windows 11, delivering a huge number of old laptops outdated. Prerequisites that incorporate Confided in Stage Module (TPM) 2.0, a committed chip that gives equipment level security administrations on your gadget.
In a Windows IT Star Blog entry named "TPM 2.0 - a need for a solid and future-confirmation Windows 11", Steven Hosking explains the case for the safeguard. Hosking, a senior item director at Microsoft, makes sense of what TPM 2.0 is, and why it's a need for running Windows 11.
That's what hosking states, "By organizing TPM 2.0 as a non-debatable norm for the eventual fate of Windows, we raise the security benchmark. It permits you and us to all the more likely line up with the developing requirement for considerable information assurance in the advanced computerized circle."
He proceeds to say that "TPM 2.0 isn't simply a proposal — it's a need for keeping a solid and future-confirmation IT climate with Windows 11."
While Reasonable, Microsoft's Position Is Baffling
All that Hosking says might be valid, and Microsoft's position on requiring equipment which upholds TPM 2.0 is, eventually, the right call. Nonetheless, it shuts the entryway on anybody with a more seasoned PC that Microsoft considers ineligible for Windows from moving up to the fresher working framework. Authoritatively. Driving them to purchase new equipment all things considered.
This comes closely following Microsoft wanting to add a watermark to the Windows 11 work area of anybody introducing the operating system on unsupported equipment. Thus, anybody hoping to utilize a workaround to move up to Windows 11 preceding Windows 10 help reaches a conclusion will be disgraced, basically.
I get the inclination that Microsoft is beginning to feel the squeeze somewhat here, as 62% of laptops are as yet running Windows 10, with Windows 11 right now stuck at 34%. In this way, it's no big surprise that Microsoft is proposing to broaden Windows 10 help for an additional year (at a cost).