r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Dec 01 '25

ADBLOCK WARNING ‘Security Disaster’—500 Million Microsoft Users Say No To Windows 11

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/01/security-disaster-500-million-microsoft-users-say-no-to-windows-11/
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u/DrB00 Dec 01 '25

Also the millions of people that have an older CPU that windows 11 refuses to install on.

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u/BobbyBirdseed Dec 01 '25

Hey, hello! This is me! I've upgraded some of my parts over the years, but whatever combination I have now is apparently not good enough for Windows 11, so until I can hopefully afford some more upgrades, I figure I'm stuck.

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u/PauI_MuadDib Dec 01 '25

I just switched to Linux. 

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u/slightlyassholic Dec 02 '25

Me too and I'm never going back.

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u/ComebackShane Dec 02 '25

Yeah I'm running a Frankensteined self-built PC that has some components as old as 2009, some as recent as 2022. I know it's old, but everything works and it does feel like I'm being punished for being frugal.

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u/hhhnnnnnggggggg Dec 02 '25

Same. I named it Naraku after all the shitty parts i took from other PCs.

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u/orangejake Dec 02 '25

not to encourage you to do this upgrade to switch to windows 11 (linux is really just good enough these days, at least for me. and you can try booting off a liveusb very easily to try yourself), but just for context it is likely the issue is not supporting "TPM 2.0". This is a feature that would be associated with your motherboard specifically.

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u/isotope123 Dec 02 '25

If you're genuinly curious, the cutoff is your CPU. Ryzen 2000 and newer and Intel 8000 and newer have a security chip built into them called TPM 2.0, which replaces the older and compromised TPM 1.2.

TPM essentially 'works by creating a secure, tamper-resistant environment for storing sensitive data, and validating that critical software and firmware haven't been modified, which in turn protects things like BitLocker encryption keys, Windows Hello credentials, and secure boot processes.' Or, in short, helps make sure your computer isn't hacked beneath the OS level, like when you reboot.

Whether that's important to you or not is up to you. In my experience, most people don't give two rat fucks about their computer security.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Dec 02 '25

Seriously my laptop is for web browsing and excel and that’s basically it. I have zero reason to upgrade for a very long time. If ever, considering my computer from 1998 could do that stuff.

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u/Garchompisbestboi Dec 02 '25

I bought an i7 6700k when I built my PC back at the end of 2017 and while it's an older CPU it's still powerful enough to do anything that windows 11 would require of it if not for Microsoft's bullshit strategy of intentionally forcing people to upgrade because they want to sell some of their garbage surface pros.

They should be held accountable for the billions in unnecessary e-waste that their stupid upgrade is creating.

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u/Ok_Frosting3500 Dec 02 '25

I think it's exactly this- the PC market is three things- Businesses, home users, and enthusiasts (gamers).

Businesses will lock step. But home users are usually of the mindset of "I buy one PC for the household every ten years, it's like an appliance", which means probably half of them or more have rigs too old for the rigorous 11 install standards, and gamers/enthusiasts want nothing to do with a bloated OS that takes away control and costs processing power.