I did the unthinkable!
A few months ago I posted on here about how I was uncomfortable with the mandatory TPM requirement in Windows 11 due to Microsoft’s previous history in the development stage of Vista. I was told about passwordless sign-on being a thing. But I found an even better one.
https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2022/08/windows-hello-no-tpm-no-security/
Long story short, if you don’t have a TPM and use Windows Hello, your PIN can be broken in seconds. With a TPM, the TPM’s anti-hammer protection will block a brute-force attempt to crack the PIN.
My other hesitancy was the new right-click menu. Thankfully, Susan posted a registry setting to disable it.
These were enough to satisfy me and I upgraded to Windows 11 22H2 last night (after taking a full system image of course). I was running Windows 10 LTSC 2021 so I had to do a double hop, one to the standard Windows 10 Enterprise 22H2 and once again to Windows 11 Enterprise (I have access to Enterprise via a VS/MSDN sub provided by my job). Despite the double hop, the upgrade was painless.
For the Start menu, I just followed what I did with Windows 8.1 back in the day. I unpinned the provided apps and pinned my own. I think I can handle it but we’ll see over the next few days.
