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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

or they are in Europe and they get to wait an extra year.

This is being offered in the USA, too, you know. You have to submit to logging in with a Microsoft account and allowing them to back up your system preferences to the cloud.

Secondly, the onerous TPM 2.0 requirement is actually what is going to stop a lot of those low-end computers from upgrading. I recently was helping a friend with what seemed like a relatively recent machine and I was shocked to find it still has a BIOS and not a UEFI and I had to redo my installation disk to support MBR partitioning instead of GPT partitioning.

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theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

This is being offered in the USA, too, you know. You have to submit to logging in with a Microsoft account and allowing them to back up your system preferences to the cloud.

Source? My understanding has been that the EU is forcing Microsoft to allow this option, but only if EU users submit to the requirements you mentioned. I have not heard about this being extended to US users. I was able to sub to Extended Security Updates, but I have been assuming this is because my VPN shows me in Europe.

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- SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  but I have been assuming this is because my VPN shows me in Europe.
  
  Glad you found the info yourself, but your version of Windows will still register as a US version. Being behind a VPN doesn’t change your OS fingerprints.
  
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