Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates if your CPU is old

Re:Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates i... by boznz on Saturday August 28, 2021 @04:12PM (#28341112)

What specifically in a newer X86 chip would justify this ?

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Re:Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates i... by izacus on Saturday August 28, 2021 @04:17PM (#28341153)

TPM 2.0 and DRM codepaths to properly "secure" app installs?

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Re:Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates i... by AndrewDucker on Saturday August 28, 2021 @04:59PM (#28341429)

Mode-based execution control - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/why-windows-11-has-s...

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Re:Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates i... by numpad0 on Saturday August 28, 2021 @04:18PM (#28341157)

Supposedly some optional side channel attack mitigations that are only present in Core i 8th/Zen 2 or later.

However, 8th/Zen 2 means i3-8xxx and Ryzen 3xxx or later, respectively, which contradicts Microsoft’s requirements which allows Zen+ Ryzen 2xxx/3xxxG. So it’s a bit of mystery.

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Re:Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates i... by badsectoracula on Saturday August 28, 2021 @04:45PM (#28341336)

Withholding security updates on more vulnerable hardware sounds like a galaxybrain solution indeed :-P

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Re:Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates i... by no_time on Sunday August 29, 2021 @08:27AM (#28346162)

1, PCs are barely getting faster and they need to manufacture a reason to force people to upgrade.

2, some kind of DRM scheme that doesnt work on older hardware

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