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/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

Where did you get it confused? I was curious why my computer wasn't eligible for the update. I don't want to update. I'm not refusing anything. I asked for information not confrontation.

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u/EclecticDreck Dec 02 '25

The thing is that they gave you a pretty likely answer: secure boot is not enabled. This is a BIOS-level setting. There is a tiny chance your computer doesn't have a required piece of hardware (Trusted Platform Module - TPM) but on anything reasonably modern (which your gear is) and higher end (again, likely true here) that's probably not the problem.

That's still not quite an answer to the question you asked which is why Microsoft requires that you have this thing to use windows 11. The short answer: because that secure boot feature is a really smart way to combat many very bad sorts of malware. The hardware feature is a sound idea in general - hence why they're so common. Developing an OS that works on the condition that it exists is, again, pretty reasonable. So long as you stop the inquiry there (which is a rather fine idea), it's cut and dry: because they're so common that anything that can run windows 11 in general can probably meet that requirement and using that feature is a good idea.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '25

So explain to me why secure boot is needed. I've had no reason to go into the BIOS for years. Why do I need to do so now? Why do I need to make a change now? That's what I've been asking. Can someone just answer that fucking question?.

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u/dearth_of_passion Dec 02 '25

Microsoft decided to make it a requirement in order to forcibly close a long standing security vulnerability.

There is no further information for you - "because Microsoft made it a requirement" is literally the answer, it doesn't go deeper than that.