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Shh, anytime I say this about Windows I get people coming out of the woodwork that say Windows 7 should be supported 15 years later.
Don't you know that it's entirely unreasonable to expect your users to have hardware that's a standard feature on any machine made in the last ten years, that can be added to existing systems for around $30 and a free card slot? /s
I don't think I'll ever understand the insistence that a TPM module is a bridge too far.
My PC has a tpm, the CPU is simply on the unsupported list.
Because of the sheer amount of e-waste it will generate by force-decommissioning hardware in active usage. Don't know why that's so hard to understand.
The only reason that's any different than any other time Microsoft has released a new OS is that more people own computers now than ever before, improvements in hardware power have slowed significantly, and people are more outspoken online now.
It's still not reasonable to expect them to support all hardware forever on an aging codebase.
I understand the frustration, but this isn't some new thing for this new OS in particular.
You're extrapolating to "forever". I just want to reduce e-waste by not forcing people to get new computers they don't want or need yet. Every year of additional service life, more people upgrade hardware for other reasons.