• qaz@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Windows required CPU’s to have certain extensions/instructions to use the newest version, which might have required buying a new CPU and thus getting one of the affected ones. However, I don’t think it’s reasonable to blame Microsoft for this.

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      5 months ago

      M$ is not the source of this problem, but they did force TPM 2.0 on their OS, forcing people to throw away older CPUs, so they made it much worse.

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        5 months ago

        Oh yeah, I forgot about TPM 2.0 and was just thinking about POPCNT etc.