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Microsoft will announce Windows 11 today, you can watch the announcement here
We've been mentioning Windows 11 for a while now, and the announcement is looking to be closer than expected. In fact, we've found a few ways to monitor today's announcements. Windows 11 will very likely become a free upgrade for existing Windows 10 users.
Everything points to the fact that the announcements will take place at 11 AM Eastern Time, 17:00 CEST. The event would be imminent on Microsoft's website . At 21 pm there will be a separate live stream on YouTube are for developers. This would have to do with the expected updated Store in the next version of the operating system.
Thanks to a download link for an (incomplete) beta of the new OS, it was already possible to see the new, more rounded design style in action in areas such as the taskbar, start menu and window, along with the modernized icons. Widgets have also been added, an option has been created to view power consumption per app and there are new privacy functions. Microsoft has more or less confirmed the existence of Windows 11 in a support document . The update is officially called Sun Valley or 21H2 October Update 2021, so it will probably be available in October this year. It is not yet known for sure whether users with Windows 7, 8 or 10 will be able to upgrade for free.
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#5924277 Posted on: 06/26/2021 12:24 PM
Maybe we'll see this:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5283799
"To improve the security of DRM solutions the paper proposes a secure DRM architecture based on TPM which is called TBDRM. It ensures that content is always under the control of the license and such license is secure and fresh during its lifecycle. Compared with other DRM solutions, TBDRM can prevent replay attack and improper access enforced through cracked software."
Yep - I thought 'Secured PC' also includes encrypted system memory, like on the current gaming consoles, but the latter is only available in AMD EPYC procesors so far...
Maybe we'll see this:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5283799
"To improve the security of DRM solutions the paper proposes a secure DRM architecture based on TPM which is called TBDRM. It ensures that content is always under the control of the license and such license is secure and fresh during its lifecycle. Compared with other DRM solutions, TBDRM can prevent replay attack and improper access enforced through cracked software."
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#5924346 Posted on: 06/26/2021 05:39 PM
as a I said.. this is like the paste© for hardware requiriments of OEMs, windows 10 already requires tpm 2.0 for new OEM devices ( page 33) https://download.microsoft.com/download/c/1/5/c150e1ca-4a55-4a7e-94c5-bfc8c2e785c5/Windows 10 Minimum Hardware Requirements.pdf
I bet it will be the same for 11 and always will be unless they wanna cut like 50% of potential costumer, OEM included, in some countries like Russia and China.
I bet 2.0 is required if you WANT to use TPM since Microsfot should have removed SHA-1 encryption support with tpm 1.2, so 2.0 is required or nada.
and that's why if you WANT to use TPM (2.0) you need secure boot.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/tpm/tpm-recommendations#why-tpm-20
absolutely.
if you have a server board you could just buy Supermicro's AOM-TPM-9665VS for $50
" Vertical TXT: Server Motherboard Platform: Intel, AMD Supported CPUs: Intel Xeon E5/E7, AMD EPYC 7000 Series Supported Platforms: Supermicro motherboards with 20-pin TPM connectors Dimensions (WxLxH): 8. 0 x 26. 0 x 25. 0 mm (Vertical Design) RoHS Compliant"
but while there are one or two (that i know of) that would work for enthusiast boards, it's dependent on the mobo itself offering the socket. many do but are found more commonly on the business boards.
if your computer can do "windows hello" with fingerprint sensor or camera you most likely can do the upgrade. and it may be possible by just adding biometric/camera add-ons from Win10
as a I said.. this is like the paste© for hardware requiriments of OEMs, windows 10 already requires tpm 2.0 for new OEM devices ( page 33) https://download.microsoft.com/download/c/1/5/c150e1ca-4a55-4a7e-94c5-bfc8c2e785c5/Windows 10 Minimum Hardware Requirements.pdf
I bet it will be the same for 11 and always will be unless they wanna cut like 50% of potential costumer, OEM included, in some countries like Russia and China.
I bet 2.0 is required if you WANT to use TPM since Microsfot should have removed SHA-1 encryption support with tpm 1.2, so 2.0 is required or nada.
and that's why if you WANT to use TPM (2.0) you need secure boot.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/tpm/tpm-recommendations#why-tpm-20
absolutely.
if you have a server board you could just buy Supermicro's AOM-TPM-9665VS for $50
" Vertical TXT: Server Motherboard Platform: Intel, AMD Supported CPUs: Intel Xeon E5/E7, AMD EPYC 7000 Series Supported Platforms: Supermicro motherboards with 20-pin TPM connectors Dimensions (WxLxH): 8. 0 x 26. 0 x 25. 0 mm (Vertical Design) RoHS Compliant"
but while there are one or two (that i know of) that would work for enthusiast boards, it's dependent on the mobo itself offering the socket. many do but are found more commonly on the business boards.
if your computer can do "windows hello" with fingerprint sensor or camera you most likely can do the upgrade. and it may be possible by just adding biometric/camera add-ons from Win10
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#5924355 Posted on: 06/26/2021 06:31 PM
this Spring ? try this Fall
This Spring for Windows Insiders.
Microsoft Announces Windows 11, available this spring and for free for Windows 10 users
this Spring ? try this Fall
This Spring for Windows Insiders.
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#5924517 Posted on: 06/27/2021 10:22 AM
But is it breaking with the past in some way, or whatever was supported on win10 from the old stuff, will still run?
No its not. Its said to have some heavy scheduler changes and will support big.LITTLE CPU's like what Intel is about to roll out.
But is it breaking with the past in some way, or whatever was supported on win10 from the old stuff, will still run?
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except you don't need it.
most usages are disc encryptions, passwords and azure/365 crap token that common user does not care at all and you can do it without it.
Even if end users don't care about software piracy and data theft, Microsoft does.
There are also password-less authentification services which require you to provide physical-based authentification in the form of face and fingerprint scanning.
https://www.neowin.net/news/some-thoughts-on-microsofts-requirement-for-a-tpm-module-in-windows-11/
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-details-how-security-is-at-the-forefront-with-windows-11/
TPM 2.0 is also required for device encryption and anti-tampering tracking (DRTM) in the 'Secured-core PC' suite of protocols.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/oem-highly-secure#what-makes-a-secured-core-pc
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/tpm/tpm-recommendations#tpm-and-windows-features
I don't know what the hell TPM had to do with direct storage.
Drive encryption is not blackboxing.
Yep - I thought 'Secured-core PC' also includes TSME system memory encryption, like on the current gaming consoles, but looks like the latter is only available in recent AMD EPYC procesors so far...
https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/
https://community.amd.com/t5/amd-business-blog/amd-and-microsoft-secured-core-pc/ba-p/418204
GUID Partition Table is a little bit more resilient, and you can explicitly set partition type (EFI, MSR, Recovery, data etc) and attributes (hidden, read-only, no drive letter, etc). And of course there is no 2 TB size limit and there can be 128 partitions on the disk - I find it very useful for making temporary clone copies of my SSDs on a large multi-TB hard disk.
But what outside software media decoders, what benefits brings SSE4.1 support? Who knows, maybe they need it for video conferencing features, since the Teams app is now part of the OS?
we don't need WDDM 2.0 to run another desktop. wddm 1.x works fine. not all people needs direct3d12 gaming features on all their systems.
Kernel-mode part of WDDM 2.0 (DXGK) is about GPU memory management and work scheduling. Direct3D 12 driver is a user-mode component of WDDM 2.0.