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i think microsoft purged their forums or something because most of the search results seem to redirect to homepage now
I can't tell you how pissed I was when they did they. They invalidated so many links to solutions.
Granted, there was a lot of useless slop on there too, mostly from eol versions of Windows like 2000, millennium edition....
They threw all of it away, both good and bad, without warning. Without any opportunity for anyone to archive it. WTF Microsoft.
To their credit, their new documentation seems to be much better, they actually have useful help articles on not only how to do something, but also explaining the mechanisms, requirements and limitations of things. Not everything is in their new docs but I have to give credit where it's due, the technical document writers are doing good work.
With all that being said, it doesn't mean that Windows, or Microsoft are on a good trajectory.
Their new operating systems and updates are some of the worst updates and changes I've seen to their systems. Adding ads and basically spying on paying customers...
There are some controversial changes I'm in favor of, like the TPM requirement. A lot don't realize it but Apple integrated a TPM in basically everything they make over the years. The migration was slow but it happened almost silently, without anyone really noticing. All major smartphones have some version of a TPM, so the last bastion of not having/needing one is the PC market.
The PC market has known they should include this stuff for years before Windows 11 was released. If you go and look at mid to high end motherboards, even for custom/retail units, there are at least TPM headers on most of them. OEMs knew this was coming and instead of just integrating it into their product, like everyone else did, they made it an optional feature. Since nobody knew what the fuck a TPM is, nobody bought into that option. Now millions of computers are destined for ewaste because manufacturers couldn't be bothered to add a small IC to the system without being obligated to do so by someone like Microsoft. An entire industry of technology has this one thing that nobody even fucking knows exists, and they're the hold out.
.... And everyone is mad at Microsoft about it.
I'm not. TPM chips are a good addition to systems. It shouldn't even be a debate. I blame OEMs for not bothering to add them when they could have/should have, and making it mandatory on all prebuilts, all retail motherboards, all boutique systems, all custom builds... Everything. The cost difference would have been into the tens of dollars at most. It would have barely made any difference at all.
Anyways. I'll stop now.