Comment Hardware is not obsolete (Score 4, Interesting) 221
Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete....
The hardware isn't obsolete, Microsoft just decided that it was the easiest way to end backwards compatibility. Isn't it strange that an emulated TPM is good enough for a cloud VM but not for a personal desktop? I wonder if we will see this again if TPM 2.0 breaks and newer hardware is once again "required"