<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 12:16 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I think the official EOL is sometime next year.<br>
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MS got themselves into a bit of a pickle from what I can tell. Win11 requires some security thing in a separate chip or inside of Intel CPUs built after some point. They’ve played a hard line saying nothing will work on Win11 without that bit of hardware. By EOLing all Win10 machines and forcing them to upgrade to Win11, they’ll turn a LOT of hardware into bricks. Last week they announced they’re going to back-down on that and will allow Win11 to be installed on older hardware without that chip. And ... they just announced they’ll even offer a subscription to keep Win10 updated with security patches for another 5 years or so, like they’ve been doing with Win7 for a while now.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Yes, lately MS has been flip-flopping on the TPM h/w module as mandatory for a Win11 install.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">The workaround (bypassing TPM) is to use <a href="https://rufus.ie/en/">Rufus</a> to create a bootable Win11 install media (8GB USB drive) that bypasses the TPM check.</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">You will need to download the Win11 ISO from Microsoft.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Your Win10 lic key is good for a Win11 install.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">HTH,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Arun Khan</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div></div></div>