Windows 11 TPM

[RodPad]

I asked a long time friend, to tell me his thoughts.
Before I shared this clip to others, etc.

He is the head IT for our county.
Like, Administration, Building, Engineering, Fire & EMS, Municipal Court, Parking, Planning, Police, Public Works, etc.
Got an award from Oregon a few years ago related to 911 dispatch for our county.

The video I shared.

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I will post his text response next.

Rod ..

 

[RodPad]

His Reply.

Very interesting.
I believe the computer industry is about to turn over a very dark page in history.

The sad part is that there is no real viable choice for the average user.
Would you build a Linux computer and expect your mom or the average person to know how to just start working with it?

This is the dystopian future the connectedness of the internet has brought us.
If you don't need to connect to the internet then you can run whatever OS you want and on any old computer, but that is not how people use their computers anymore.

They want to be connected, so now the manufacturers can dictate how you use that resource. Very dystopian.
Oh, and they will know everything about you.

I wanted to share this.

To me this chip being required?
So many things I think of right now, whats going to develop just this year.

That's what I got.

Please reply if you got any corrections, etc.
Thanks..

Rod ..

 

[anotherlab]

Ugh, more Click-Bait FUD. As a long-time Linux user, I always laugh when the fanatics raise the banner that this is the time to switch to Linux.

Windows 11 requires a TPM 2.0 chip to enable on-board security for BitLocker (disk encryption) and Windows Hello (biometric authentication).

It's annoying if you have a Windows 10 computer that doesn't have TPM 2.0 support. It's also going to be an older computer. TPM 2.0 became standard on new Windows computers 9 years ago. Windows 10 has reached the end of its life. I'm typing this on a 2016 HP All In One that can't be updated to Windows 11 by the usual channels. There are work arounds available that will let many Windows 10 machines update to Windows 11.

If you have an older computer that is running Windows 10 just fine, it's going to continue to run. But you will no longer receive any security updates unless you enroll in their Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. That will give you another 3 years of security support. It should be free for most consumers; at worst, it's $30.

Edit...
After posting this, I enrolled this ancient, yet useful, computer in the ESU program. I have an extra year of security updates for free.

 

[Cafguy]

As we move to A.I I think operating systems will mostly be for us geeks the rest of the world will move to little monitors that "Do it all". and answer every question.

 

[AnzacJack]

As we move to A.I I think operating systems will mostly be for us geeks the rest of the world will move to little monitors that "Do it all". and answer every question.

I was sooo mad when we in the Defence Department had to change from xtree gold to windows. Then when windows 95 came out, it was the devil. Dont get me started on y2K

Would we be better still operating with DOS and a third party file manager???

 

[Bad Santa]

The scary thing is we have so few options, now, for interacting with the world.
If you have PC system, your only options are Windows, with ONE supported version, Linux, which has a pretty steep learning curve, or iEverything.

It wouldn't take much for the entire infrastructure to collapse and we'd all be in the dark, literally.

 

[SkyAngel1]

Windows 10 is dead so they say. My 4 year old computer did not pass the test to upgrade. So rather then buy a new computer I followed this guys video. Upgraded no problem and seems to work just fine.

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[AnzacJack]

It wouldn't take much for the entire infrastructure to collapse and we'd all be in the dark, literally.

which would fix hacking, social media harassment and disinformation, dissemination of reliable and unreliable information and reigning in the growth of AI and Deepfakes.
I literally had this conversation with a group of year 12 students. They have recently read 1984 and Animal farm. It is getting scary when the solution to so many problems could be the cause of losing so many freedoms. Catch 22?

 

[Cafguy]

I was sooo mad when we in the Defence Department had to change from xtree gold to windows. Then when windows 95 came out, it was the devil. Dont get me started on y2K

Would we be better still operating with DOS and a third party file manager???

My V.A. Hospital still uses windows 2000. SERIOUSLY!

 

[anotherlab]

Would we be better still operating with DOS and a third party file manager???

No.

I wrote factory floor data collection software for DOS. I do not miss the days of having to write TSRs to perform anything running in the background. There was more to life than 25 rows of 80 columns of ASCII text.

Dont get me started on y2K

Y2K was more hype than problem. We wrote scripts to patch the data and made some minor changes to the application code. It will be a bigger issue for the 2038 problem. There will IoT devices all over the place that will need to be patched.

 

[rwilliam99]

Y2K was more hype than problem. We wrote scripts to patch the data and made some minor changes to the application code. It will be a bigger issue for the 2038 problem. There will IoT devices all over the place that will need to be patched.

As someone who personally applied an IBM fix for an incredibly serious Y2K flaw only 6 months before Y2K (it shocked me no one had found it until then - IBM was calling companies telling them they REALLY needed to apply this fix - it was that bad), it bothers me when people say Y2K was all hype. Y2K was a big deal - it was a non event due to a LOT of work by a LOT of people - had that work not happened, bad things would have occurred. I doubt it would have brought society to its knees like some were predicting but it would have eclipsed things like the recent AWS outage or the Crowdstrike outage last year.

It was certainly over hyped by some but it was a big problem.

 

[anotherlab]

As someone who personally applied an IBM fix for an incredibly serious Y2K flaw only 6 months before Y2K (it shocked me no one had found it until then - IBM was calling companies telling them they REALLY needed to apply this fix - it was that bad), it bothers me when people say Y2K was all hype. Y2K was a big deal - it was a non event due to a LOT of work by a LOT of people - had that work not happened, bad things would have occurred. I doubt it would have brought society to its knees like some were predicting but it would have eclipsed things like the recent AWS outage or the Crowdstrike outage last year.

It was certainly over hyped by some but it was a big problem.

It was a bigger problem for people on older systems. For people using newer systems, it was less of an issue. In 1999, I worked on systems that had 2-digit dates and more modern systems where it wasn't an issue at all. We had addressed the 2-digit date systems in 1998. It wasn't like Y2K snuck up on us, it was management that failed to address it in a timely manner (pun intended).

It wouldn't have eclipsed AWS falling down or Crowdstrike, but that's just my opinion. It would have greatly inconvenienced some people, as opposed to AWS affecting just about everyone in some fashion

 

[rwilliam99]

It was a bigger problem for people on older systems. For people using newer systems, it was less of an issue. In 1999, I worked on systems that had 2-digit dates and more modern systems where it wasn't an issue at all. We had addressed the 2-digit date systems in 1998. It wasn't like Y2K snuck up on us, it was management that failed to address it in a timely manner (pun intended).

It wouldn't have eclipsed AWS falling down or Crowdstrike, but that's just my opinion. It would have greatly inconvenienced some people, as opposed to AWS affecting just about everyone in some fashion

In 1999, mainframes still ran the big companies of the world and IBM was still king. You are right, the smaller, newer systems were less affected, but the banks and insurance companies of the day all ran on big iron. Most of them still have a significant amount of old, legacy code, too.

If you don't think bank and insurance systems failing would have eclipsed the AWS failure, I'm not sure what to say......But that is just my opinion after being in the trenches for 30 years.

 

[anotherlab]

If you don't think bank and insurance systems failing would have eclipsed the AWS failure, I'm not sure what to say......But that is just my opinion after being in the trenches for 30 years.

You are talking about a hypothetical situation that didn't happen vs actual failures that took entire systems down.

The Social Security administration spent millions to address Y2K, but they recognized the issue a decade earlier and started then. They were done by 1998. Crowdstrike was a faulty update that required manual intervention on every affected PC. Very different problems.