> TPM 2.0 was released in 2019
This can't be right. I have 5+ year old PCs with 2.0 TPMs.
It isn't. TPM 2.0 was standardized in 2015; the most recent update to the standard was published in 2019.
I stand corrected. Still, 2015 isn't that long ago, and new systems of the time couldn't adopt it immediately.
Would be odd for MS to do so - according to other news, W11 could run with TPM 1.2, so apparently they didn't increase their requirements that much. Even that would leave quite a few systems out...
* Windows Updates need to be solved even more comprehensively (get rid of winsxs or use smaller backing, adopt sane file locking so that reboots are less required, etc.). Still any improvement can justify a new version by itself.
* Per wiki, TPM 2.0 was released in 2019. 2019 wasn't that long ago. Does that mean older computers will be unable to run W11? Many more computers will end up running Linux eventually.
* The account requirement is unfortunately. Really, MS didn't get enough users using the old method?