When Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO earlier this year, he brought with him as Senior Vice President and CTO (Chief Technology Officer) Greg Lavender, a former CEO of VMWare. Now VentureBeat has interviewed him to review both Intel projects and the situation in the industry …
… and, as was inevitable, the issue of upgrading to Windows 11 has come up: “You must be happy”, the journalist asks, “that Windows 11 has incorporated this hardware security feature”, referring to the TPM technology officially required by Microsoft’s new operating system.
“I have an old Intel NUC [una línea de PCs compactos] I use to program. I have tried to upgrade it to Windows 11 and it told me I need to buy a new one because it did not have the Secure Platform Module (TPM) “.
“So I’ve asked my colleagues when the next NUC model will come out. I do not want the one we are currently distributing, but one with the new chips. So I’m on the waiting list for a beta box to be sent to me. “
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It is a funny anecdote, to think that an entire Intel CTO has to be ordering a new team to be able to upgrade to Windows 11 …
… but at the same time clearly illustrates the impact that the launch of Microsoft (with its high official hardware requirements) will have on the industry, promoting the recycling of part of the computer equipment in use by users all over the planet (except, perhaps, China).
Clearly, this renewal will affect mainly corporate users: Large companies and public bodies cannot afford to deal with old software, or to resort to update methods not supported by Microsoft, how that would affect to the provision of technical support.
Only taking that into account can we understand that Lavender prefers not to give ‘bad example’ resorting to one of the various ways to install Windows 11 on computers without TPM (nor compatible processor): in Genbeta we already did it and for now Windows 11 continues without giving us the slightest problem.
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