Comment by aksss

TBF, the author’s point, more accurately, seems to be that the average user doesn’t care about the benefits of TPM enough to junk an otherwise performant PC, a practice which Microsoft’s hardware requirements promote. Nor, obviously, is the average user going to care enough to learn about enabling a vTPM in the bios, etc.

If the observation is that this spurred a waste of consumer resources for an edge-case threat scenario, I’d probably concur. It arguably would have been better to not make it a hard requirement.

However, as other comment states, there is an enormous segment of the purchasing population with incredibly deep pockets in aggregate that absolutely does care about TPM. Further, there’s probably no way MS could ensure universal OEM cooperation without “normalizing” the expectation of inclusion with the hard requirement. Sorry, consumer, it’s how the platform evolves.