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>>foodst+(OP)
> if you're not running Windows Microsoft can't update the firmware on your TPM.

This seems to be the biggest issue - hardware locked into requiring Windows to be up to date.

MS can of course ship firmware that's independent of the OS, but knowing MS - they probably won't.

>>shmerl+ud
It sounds like they're using UEFI capsule updates for the firmware, so it'll actually be easy to perform the updates under other operating systems - Microsoft just won't have any mechanism to compel you to do so.

>>mjg59+jg
Then it won't be a big problem I guess.

Though having a blob firmware from MS embedded into the CPU itself feels kind of weird. A better way to do it was some third party handling it or requiring that firmware to be open source for example.