On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 12:16 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
I think the official EOL is sometime next year.

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.

Yes, lately MS has been flip-flopping on the TPM h/w module as mandatory for a Win11 install.
The workaround (bypassing TPM) is to use Rufus to create a bootable Win11 install media (8GB USB drive) that bypasses the TPM check.
You will need to download the Win11 ISO from Microsoft.

Your Win10 lic key is good for a Win11 install.

HTH,
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Arun Khan