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Petri-X
Sep 19, 2021Bronze Contributor
Electronic waste and Windows 11 requirements
Hey, When looking for the requirements to get Win11 (not for mine Coffee Lake) I started to wonder how much electronic waste Microsoft generate by launching Win11. Perhaps MS already knows that, as ...
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Oct 06, 2021Security is also a factor that decided in this matter - it should be remembered that this is a decision with the active participation of Microsoft partners.
Best regards
Best regards
banjoboy96
Oct 06, 2021Copper Contributor
There are many "unsupported" CPUs that have TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot capabilities. VBS is clearly not ready to be rolled out en masse given the performance issues that have been seen so far, particular in GPU-heavy applicaitons, so this shouldn't really be the reason to create such a huge amount of e-waste either.
I trust the "Microsoft partners" about as much as I trust MS themselves - they're all focused on profit, and Microsoft's recent commitment to "zero waste" by 2030 is completely hollow if they're essentially making users dump their perfectly good devices under the guise of "security".
I trust the "Microsoft partners" about as much as I trust MS themselves - they're all focused on profit, and Microsoft's recent commitment to "zero waste" by 2030 is completely hollow if they're essentially making users dump their perfectly good devices under the guise of "security".