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> They can't make Dell or whoever put in good hardware unless it's a hard-requirement to run their OS.

They control the Windows Logo standards, and have used these to enforce a variety of hardware requirements (including TPM) in the past.



Functionally, how would that change the situation? Sounds like it's just a different method of enforcement, with this perhaps being a stricter one that prevents maybe some sort of off-label selling of the OS?


The logo standards only apply to new hardware; what they’re doing now applies to existing hardware as well.


Got it, thanks.




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