Surface Pro 2 customers deserve to know: Will MS release a TPM firmware update or not?

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Here we go again. Microsoft has an ugly history with abysmal customer support for Surface devices. This time around, it’s a simple question about firm
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Will we get a straight answer? I won’t hold my breath.

Microsoft and straight answers?

But of course they won’t waste precious time on such outdated hardware. Four years!? You should have updated at least twice…

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Microsoft and straight answers? But of course they won’t waste precious time on such outdated hardware. Four years!? You should have updated at least twice…

M$ says you have should have updated at least 8 times…

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Bought a vehicle today.  Three-hour process (bought it online, and I’m five hours from home, after a night in hotel).  Wrapping it up is the finance guy, who even with an all-cash sale has to put a lot of paperwork in front of me to be signed.  Midway through, I commented quietly about how we’ve been expecting the paperless society for a long time now (20 years?).

Triumphantly he points to some stuff on the floor behind his desk, still in the boxes, which will do away with paper soon.  The “Surface”  device is prominently mentioned.  I get the feeling that he doesn’t really understand how all this will work, but, hey, he’s just the finance guy responsible for getting the customer to actually write the check.

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“Trusted” Platform Module

When will we realise that our privacy is not what we think it is.

The later the hardware and software the more sophisticated the backdoors and open windows.

Words like “trusted” and “updates” should be red flags.

Nothing to see here – move on.

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Is a TPM firmware update part of a BIOS update for Surface computer?

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I think that trusted platform modules get their firmware updated separately, like Intel has done with the Managment Engine firmware patches. Your speculation about them including such software in a BIOS update might be correct.

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It seems like Surface Pro 2 End Of Life was April, 2018. I wouldn’t expect much, if anything. Oddly, now their End Of Life dates are nowhere to be found on the MS website.

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