When Microsoft introduced Windows 11 in 2021, its new, stringent hardware compatibility test included checking for the presence of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) -- specifically, one that meets the ...

With the end date for Windows 10 less than a year away, people still using that operating system will need to start preparing to enter the Windows 11 era. And Microsoft is placing a hardware ...

TL;DR: Microsoft is again defending the stipulation to have TPM 2.0 to upgrade to Windows 11, laying out the benefits of the bolstered security it brings in a fresh blog post. However, environmental ...

When Microsoft released Windows 11 in 2021, it also rolled out strict hardware compatibility requirements for the new operating system. If you tried to upgrade a ...

As the end of life is fast approaching for Windows 10, Microsoft is pushing users to upgrade to Windows 11. However, one barrier to entry is the company's requirement ...

A hot potato: The Trusted Platform Module standard describes a dedicated cryptography chip designed to manage many security-related tasks in a computer. The standard was introduced in 2009, but ...

Due to this requirement, some users couldn't proceed with the update via official ways. While there were alternative methods to flash Windows 11, most of them left ...

Until the release of Windows 11, the upgrade proposition for Windows operating systems was rather straightforward: you considered whether the current version of Windows on your system still fulfilled ...

Microsoft is rolling out "Secure Boot Allowed Key Exchange Key (KEK) Update," which requires a system reboot to finish ...