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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Windows 11: Good lord, what is that company doing to its OS
 
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Actuarial Fables
Jul 29, 2014

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repiv posted:

Any ideas why they might want TPM as standard now? I get using it for BitLocker, but otherwise...?

Microsoft has been pushing passwordless authentication for a while, so standardizing TPM helps with that initiative.

e. Also, having a feature that is 100% guaranteed to be on the system means that it's not a gamble for developers to spend time making something that utilizes it.

Actuarial Fables fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Jun 25, 2021

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Windows 11: Good lord, what is that company doing to its OS