

TPMs work by offering an additional layer of security on the PC itself and, with cyberattacks on the rise, it makes sense for Microsoft to beef up protection for its billions of users.Īs Microsoft explains, "Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology is designed to provide hardware-based, security-related functions. This piece of hardware makes things far more secure and it seems Microsoft wants Windows 11 to be safer for people to use.

That's because this new software needs something called a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip to work.

There is another thing that you need to be aware of as not all machines that are currently running Windows 10 will be able to upgrade to Windows 11.
