Microsoft is promoting the advantages of Windows 11 in computer security ‘default security’, thanks to components like TPM. An announcement on Microsoft’s blog says the strategy will be expanded for Windows 12 requirements.

A few months ago, we anticipated the possible requirements for installing the next generation of Windows. They will be higher than Windows 11 in terms of RAM, in a storage unit that – at least for booting the system – would end hard drives, since it would have to be an SSD, and the list of compatible processors would be updated to the most modern ones.

Another mandatory requirement will be a standard security concept with chips that combine modern hardware and software. Microsoft insisted on the benefits of TPM 2.0 and VBS (virtualization-based security), and together with Secure Boot in UEFI, we can consider them mandatory features that are here to stay.

But Microsoft wants to go even further with them hardware security protections. “Future release of Windows 11 [y Windows 12] They will continue to add important security updates that will add even more protection from the chip to the cloud through a combination of modern hardware and software.”explains Microsoft.

Microsoft Pluton, the Redmond giant’s proprietary security chip, is rumored to may be another required component in Windows 12 requirements. In this case, it would replace the use of TPM with the advantages of being integrated into the CPU and better protecting against TPM’s own vulnerabilities and potential attacks.

The Pluton chip would be accompanied by other improvements the company is working on, such as bringing Rust into the Windows core improve memory security or Windows Defender System Guard against firmware attacks, which appear to be enabled by default.

Other new features already being tested in Windows 11 are improvements to the use of passkeys in Windows 11 to make it more secure to sign in to websites and apps using biometric authentication systems like Windows Hello. Win32 app isolation is also tested on Insider builds. The feature uses containers to isolate the execution of applications (typical in Windows) and thereby increase security.

Security improvements are always welcome, but it’s not clear How will this increase in Windows 12 requirements affect system adoption?. In Windows 11, this was the clear reason for its low market share, both because of its increase, which missed many teams, and because of the chaotic management of Microsoft in this section, which led to the fact that it could almost jump over them. any device.