Our first look at the new Windows 11 desktop.
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Microsoft’s new-fangled Windows 11 is on the verge of coming out, and customers are scrambling to get their first copy of it. They’ve redesigned the interface, and now it looks like Windows + MacOS (but without the un-user-friendliness part). But there’s a catch, as there always is with Microsoft, and it just so happens that only computers with TPM-enabled motherboards can run the new Windows 11. Microsoft has made it extremely hard for them to get sales from Windows 11, and this restriction might be just what they need to have a complete loss of sales.
Because Windows 11 just came out, almost no computers are capable of running the new OS, which almost certainly means they don’t have TPM-enabled motherboards. This is extremely aggravating for a lot of customers, for computers are already extremely difficult to find, and Microsoft’s just made it way harder than it should be.
In addition to this ridiculous restriction, Microsoft has imposed a CPU requirement, too–and Windows 11 only works on Intel Core processors that are newer than the 8th generation. There are a lot of computers with 9th, 10th, and 11th gen CPUs, but there are yet more with older ones, and Microsoft better be prepared for another huge loss of sales when they find only 30% or something like that of customers from previous Windows versions have moved to Windows 11.
But this is still the early stages of Windows 11–it’s not even available to the public yet, and Microsoft might start opening up their operating system to more users once it’s advanced in its life cycle. But for the time being, getting onto the Windows 11 highway is like getting onto an onramp that’s a sand dune covered with scorpions. I guess Microsoft doesn’t want to get any sales from Windows 11 except from the small amount of customers with PCs that have Trusted Platform Module 2.0 and an 8th gen or newer Intel Core processors.
