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Adrian,
To be quite honest, I feel that some of the new minimum requirements are complete BS!
You made windos 10 able to run on anything, giving old hardware a new lease on life, and now you are killing W10, and making requirements that a lot of fully usable pc's can not meet, what is the point of this??
Actually, this is not entirely true. The initial release of Windows 10 would run on hardware designed for Windows 7, but with each subsequent bi-annual update, it became more and more apparent that the old hardware just wouldn't cut it anymore, making that initial base hardware requirement no longer valid. My wife has an old laptop that was certified for Windows 7 but now takes over 10 minutes just to boot on a very basic Windows 10 load running 21H1 (and don't try loading any apps, those are worse!). Clearly, the laptop is no longer useful.
I can not aford to uppgrade all my machines, and i honestly dont se a point to it, as long as they work as good as they do wiht W10. Yes some of them do have the TPM and secure boot feature, but i suspect that most oof them dont.
TPM's and Secure Boot technology have been around for years. For years, most manufacturers just haven't incorporated them in their motherboards unless it was a business class machine, and even then, in the case of a TPM, mostly only on laptops. The PC environment has changed over the past 10 years. The price of TPM chips has come down to just a few dollars, and the benefit of them has outweighed the cost. At the very least, most motherboards made in the past 10 years have either come with a TPM or at least contained a header to add one.
In this day and age with malware and hacks, a TPM is all but a requirement for security's sake.
Why are you implementing this requirement? its sertanly not to save the enviroment, as many machines now wil become e-waste once suport for W10 stops.
As with all things in this world, computers are no different and they all have their limits for a useful life. Refer to my comment on my wife's laptop above, while it may technically still run Windows 10, she can not be reasonably expected to use it. Taking 10 minutes just to get to the log-in screen to sign in is not reasonable. As technology moves forward and software advances in tow, there comes a point when the old technology can no longer support newer software because it has become too complex, relies on parts of the hardware architecture that don't exist in the old hardware, etc.
In reality, Microsoft has been the most flexible when it comes to hardware requirements. Apple and Google each stop supporting their software on older hardware much sooner, giving that hardware a much shorter lifespan (or leaving users the reality of knowing they will never be able to upgrade the software on their computers until they replace it). It's a textbook case of planned obsolescence.
One reason Microsoft has been so generous is because of the large and diverse customer base they have. But we can't expect Microsoft to support older hardware forever. The world changes and the requirements of technology do as well. There comes a point when the old hardware can no longer support the needs of new technology.
Pleace come to your senses, and remove the mandetory TPM and Secure boot requirements, and make them optional like they are now. Literaly no everyday user is asking for this feature.
While the TPM requirement may cause some confusion at first, most hardware made in the past few years has it and/or supports it. Most (if not all) laptops that have shipped the past 2-3 years even come with the TPM already enabled. The confusion for some will be knowing and learning how to enter their BIOS to check if they have a TPM and how to enabled it if it isn't already.
I have a couple of computers myself that run Windows 10 just fine, but they're ten years old and I know they fall short of the Windows 11 requirements in a couple of areas, so I know they will never run Windows 11... and I'm fine with that. That's just the way the technology works.
Windows 10 is six years old and does have a few more years of supported and useful life left to it, so it's not like Microsoft is abandoning it overnight. Windows 11 is designed to take advantage of more modern technology that, while it may exist in Windows 10 machines, in order to make Windows 11 run more efficiently, more securely, etc, Microsoft was forced to draw a link in the sand and make certain things a requirement.