Windows 11 was officially launched last week, bringing many new features and updates to the Windows experience It also comes with some stringent hardware requirements The most important of these is support for Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) Microsoft says these requirements are in place to protect the system from hackers The Redmond-based company has now released a video that aims to justify Windows 11's stringent hardware requirements

The video, which features Microsoft security expert Dave Weston, includes two examples of attacks that Windows 11 actually protects against The first video shows how a hacker can brute-force his way into a PC using the RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) port (with a password) and infect it with ransomware; in the second example, Weston uses a PCI Leech device to fingerprint a PC bypassing the login

Weston then showed how Windows 11 protects against both threats and called for virtualization-based security (VBS) of the operating system as an important way to protect PCs from attacks like fingerprint login bypass

VBS is a "virtualization-based security system

Regarding VBS, our sister site Techradar noted that it can cause frame rate drops in games; VBS is turned on by default in Windows 11, and even if you own a powerful gaming PC, you may (or may not) experience a drop in frame rate If you are a gamer, this could be a serious problem

We cannot begrudge Microsoft for wanting to protect its users from attacks such as those detailed in the video In fact, it is great to see such security measures in Windows 11 However, the company could have done a better job of explaining TPM, etc, prior to the release of Windows 11 the lack of TPM 20 was one of the main reasons why older machines (including mine) could not update to Windows 11, and Windows 11's TPM requirements There are many gray areas in the You may not be able to install Windows 11 because your PC may have an older TPM 12 chip (but if it does have TPM 12, there is a Microsoft-provided workaround to install Windows 11) Alternatively, the motherboard may have a TPM chip and just need to be turned on via BIOS In short, this situation is frustrating

Windows 11 is still new and the world is still discovering its many quirks Since there is still confusion about the latest Microsoft operating system, one hopes that the company will continue to release more videos explaining the features and functionality of Windows 11