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Microsoft quietly erases Windows 11 TPM 2.0 bypass workaround from help page


For the past three years, Microsoft documented a way to run Windows 11 on PCs that lack Trusted Platform Module 2.0 hardware - but that workaround has now disappeared from its help page.

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a security technology that encrypts sensitive data such as encryption keys and helps to verify the authenticity of hardware and operating systems. The tech can be implemented with a discrete chip on a PC’s motherboard or integrated into a CPU.

When Windows 11 launched in 2021, TPM 2.0 was not yet ubiquitous. Many PCs that possessed the muscle to run the new OS could not therefore use the new cut of Windows.

Plenty of PC owners thought that was bonkers, because their machines were cut off from an OS that Microsoft said was super-innovative and important.

Which may be why, shortly after Windows 11 debuted in October 2021, Microsoft published ...


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