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This makes sense if you know nothing about how Microsoft is structured or making money, but otherwise falls apart. Windows licenses are not what they're priorit

This makes sense if you know nothing about how Microsoft is structured or making money, but otherwise falls apart. Windows licenses are not what they're prioritizing. But it is obviously money - kinda silly to point out that that's why a business does things, but yeah, you nailed it. Microsoft sees threats to its business in a number of forms, and believes that this hardware requirement will address them.

laurent92 5y ago
> Microsoft sees threats to its business in a number of forms, and believes that this hardware requirement will address them. Sorry for not understanding straight away but, what is the threat that is being addressed with hardware requirements?
- staticassertion 5y ago
  No need to be sorry, it's a perfectly reasonable question. 1. Security is a huge threat to Windows, 0365, etc. Microsoft and "malware" go together a little too much in the public's eyes and that hurts their business. Addressing this through hardware is reasonable, but they even have an entire product line now around this - Sentinel. 2. Microsoft likely sees GSuite as a major threat to 0365. Where Microsoft's major client is Windows, GSuite's client is ChromeOS. ChromeOS has mandated TPM 2.0 and baked it into every system, and they offer GSuite features that integrate with that - it's a massive security win for ChromeOS users, and Microsoft has to have TPM 2.0 to compete. I hope that clears this up for TPM 2.0. As for the intel series, I can't comment, I haven't looked into it and as I said elsewhere I feel that MS could easily reduce the requirement.