Not surprising. If Microsoft announced that the next release of Windows would require that the motherboard be coated in laminated chicken fat, there would be a run on chicken fat.
In this case, I suspect MS may have to back off the absolute requirement for TPM, at least for the initial release. If so they'll just add it back in later, after people have a chance to get used to the idea.
I'm not a fan of TPM, it looks to me too much like a design-by-committee with everything including the kitchen sink thrown in to please somebody. It's fairly complex, and that leads to insecurities that will be hard to address in the hardware implementation. Who would want to download a firmware update for their TPM? Will it brick the machine? And whom do you trust?
Well, WP informs.,
Trusted Platform Module (TPM) was conceived by a computer industry consortium called Trusted Computing Group (TCG)...TCG has faced resistance to the deployment of this technology in some areas, where some authors see possible uses not specifically related to Trusted Computing, which may raise privacy concerns. The concerns include the abuse of remote validation of software (where the manufacturer—and not the user who owns the computer system—decides what software is allowed to run) and possible ways to follow actions taken by the user being recorded in a database, in a manner that is completely undetectable to the user.[48]
The TrueCrypt disk encryption utility does not support TPM. The original TrueCrypt developers were of the opinion that the exclusive purpose of the TPM is "to protect against attacks that require the attacker to have administrator privileges, or physical access to the computer". The attacker who has physical or administrative access to a computer can circumvent TPM, e.g., by installing a hardware keystroke logger, by resetting TPM, or by capturing memory contents and retrieving TPM-issued keys. As such, the condemning text goes so far as to claim that TPM is entirely redundant.[49]
Concerning the manufacturer—and not the user who owns the computer system but not the OS license—deciding what software is allowed to run) and possible ways to follow actions taken by the user being recorded in a database, in a manner that is completely undetectable to the user, we can surmise how China would use this. And in the West we may want to consider how this can also be employed in the future by the cancel culture whose trend is to label a conservative a domestic type terrorist and thus to promote the censoring of such, and which is increasingly implemented.
One potentially meaning could be that a conservative user is judged to violate the terms of their MS license by posting conservative thought like as if one was using it to promote porn. Which of course evil Hollywood does, but they get a pass. Presently, the Microsoft Services Agreement states under "Code of Conduct ," "iv. Don’t publicly display or use the Services to share inappropriate content or material...offensive language.. and vii. Don’t engage in activity that is harmful to you, the Services or others...communicating hate speech... which could come to include the use of any term (wrongly) deemed racist or homophobic. And, "b. Enforcement. If you violate these Terms, we may stop providing Services to you or we may close your Microsoft account."
Of course, what constitutes such violations is in the eye of the MS beholder, and while the OS itself is not listed under the multitude of applicable services they do include Microsoft account, which MS wants you to be part of to use W/10 (if not yet actually required). But in any case, with the censorious trend of the Left then we could surmise how TPM could be used to lock up a device which is judged to be a violator of such terms.
And likewise as I posted in 2018,
Verizon's ToS for residential customers states, in part,
General Policy: Verizon reserves the sole discretion to deny or restrict your Service, or immediately to suspend or terminate your Service, if the use of your Service by you or anyone using it, in our sole discretion, violates the Agreement or other Verizon policies, is objectionable or unlawful...
use the service in any fashion for the transmission or dissemination .. in a manner that.. espouses, promotes or incites bigotry, hatred or racism;
The Comcast Cloud Solutions Terms of Service (for businesses) states, in part,
BY USING THE CLOUD SOLUTIONS MARKETPLACE YOU AGREE NOT TO post, upload, or distribute any User Submission (as defined in Section 8 below) or other content that is defamatory....inaccurate... or that a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, offensive,...threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.
The broad ambiguous terms allows them broad subjective discretion to judge a party as guilty of non-PC speech, and the more radical liberals would love to see such be used to silence those who oppose them, and it is these liberals that are gaining the ascendancy.
That said, as simply malicious hackers increase in sophistication, or just to keep up with OS improvements, I might will enable TMP in this MSI B450 pro mobo with a Ryzen 3 3200G cpu. Maybe.