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The TPM 2.0 requirement is just a way to force upgrades, as far as I can tell. Cheap tactics. We're in no rush to upgrade to Win11 at work but do use TPM.
talking about W11: it seems my windows sobered up and now tells me I'm all good to go for W11! But it can't tell me when I'll be in line to download/upgrade/whatever.On the left, Windows Update tells me I can't install Windows 11 and to check why not with the "integrity tool" (lol). On the right, said integrity tool tells me, that I should be able to install Windows 11. Thanks Microsoft, go home, you're drunk!
The TPM 2.0 requirement is just a way to force upgrades, as far as I can tell. Cheap tactics. We're in no rush to upgrade to Win11 at work but do use TPM.
But wouldn’t you then also push people to actually use the TPM instead of just mandating it to just be there?I mean...There is nothing wrong with wanting to push mainstream computing to be more secure. Lord knows people less interested in tech will use old and grossly insecure software if given the chance.
I'm still not updating for a while. Especially if my plans come through and my Windows PC gets demoted to "Wintendo"
TPM is activated at the BIOS level. You could try to activate it through a BIOS update, relying on people actually willingly going through that. You could also provide a guide for enabling it, which Microsoft does, but it's rather useless as everyone calls it somewhere different and has it somewhere else on BIOS. This also relies on interest on the part of the consumer.But wouldn’t you then also push people to actually use the TPM instead of just mandating it to just be there?
If it was a full rewrite, maybe, but it isn't. I'm still five clicks away from a Windows NT interface.
I used to have the product page of both the Mac Mini G4 and iBook G4's on a poster board in my bedroom growing up. I so wanted the 100GB HDD and 1GB, 1.5GB of memory.
I'd be very surprised if they changed anything. I still use the old school control panel apps daily so I'd be disappointed if they messed with them. I really think Windows 11 is just the next big Win10 update with a new name. Y'know, that thing they said they would never do.I’m not a windows user at home but I have to deal with it at work. I still raise an eyebrow every now and then when I’m digging around windows 10 settings and come across an oldschool Control Panel or whatnot. They literally just put the flat windows 10 interface on top. Are you saying this still is the case in 11?
I ended up getting an iMac G5 iSight for Christmas 2005 and January was when intel macs were announced…I had the last version of the PB G4 12” they made. I was so late to the game that Apple announced the Core Duo MacBook Pro in the time between me ordering and actually taking delivery. In hindsight it was a good looking but terrible laptop with shoddy wi-fi reception that got hot to the touch when you asked it to even the smallest of things. A great OS trapped in terribly outdated hardware.
Windows Media was also still very much a thing and saying that the official Mac player and plugin was a steaming pile of excrement would be an insult to excrement.
How far we’ve come.
Yeah, from the few first look things they’ve kept a lot of the old interfaces. Which seems super lazy if I’m being honest… I mean it’s fair to keep the content and everything, but at least slap a skin on it so it looks like W11? now It just seems like they weren’t finished…I'd be very surprised if they changed anything. I still use the old school control panel apps daily so I'd be disappointed if they messed with them. I really think Windows 11 is just the next big Win10 update with a new name. Y'know, that thing they said they would never do.
It's a continuous game of fooling people into thinking they're getting something new. From a corporate perspective we only take any notice of the end of support dates so I really couldn't care less about changes as long as it runs the software we need. Same at home I suppose, it really wouldn't bother me if Windows 10 or 11 still looked like XP.Yeah, from the few first look things they’ve kept a lot of the old interfaces. Which seems super lazy if I’m being honest… I mean it’s fair to keep the content and everything, but at least slap a skin on it so it looks like W11? now It just seems like they weren’t finished…
tbh same was also already true for W10.
It's a continuous game of fooling people into thinking they're getting something new. From a corporate perspective we only take any notice of the end of support dates so I really couldn't care less about changes as long as it runs the software we need. Same at home I suppose, it really wouldn't bother me if Windows 10 or 11 still looked like XP.
The Windows desktop is not a Mac ripoff, they both ripoffed Xerox.