With Microsoft’s permission, OEMs can ship Windows 11 PCs without TPM

<p>Whether this will apply for all editions of Windows 11 I’m not sure, but other sites have reported that the TPM requirement won’t need to be met for the "Windows 11 IoT" edition — the one that goes into embedded devices, such as in-car entertainment systems, industrial-control systems, "smart devices" and so-on.</p><p><br></p><p>I would imagine for the highest-end <em>Enterprise </em>edition there may be some flexibility; otherwise for <em>Home </em>and <em>Pro </em>I’m not sure when this would apply. I guess perhaps for "downgrade rights", where you could request Windows 10 to come pre-installed, not 11 — but if the device lacked a TPM that would prevent Windows 11 installation in future. So I’d guess they mean "it must have a TPM, but it can ship off-by-default in the UEFI settings". Maybe it’s for those rare cases where if you do a custom-config, you can request "no operating system" or a Linux distro (usually <em>Ubuntu</em>) to come preinstalled?</p>