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> Microsoft sees threats to its business in a number of forms, and believes that this hardware requirement will address them. Sorry for not understanding strai

• 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.