Microsoft always float trial balloons like this in advance of product releases. They envision maximal hardware and/or licencing requirements. Then they are qu

Microsoft always float trial balloons like this in advance of product releases. They envision maximal hardware and/or licencing requirements. Then they are quietly dropped or scaled back. But Windows is a mass-market, consumer-grade product and they are not going to sell hundreds of millions of copies off the back of a forced hardware upgrade, this year of all years. The supply chain isn't even going to be there.