[nana77]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I know of no features unique to Windows 11 that would help create a more difficult to break DRM scheme. Someone needs to start bringing up technical data about Windows 11 that could achieve this instead of just vague "but Windows 11 might" statements.

And the new app will most definitely use APIs. Not that that will have any bearing on how apps can be installed. If it's available in the Microsoft Store, it can be installed with winget. Period.

I saw this on HN:

This is one of the more interesting questions about the Windows 11 release that is not being discussed often enough. TPM 2.0, which is required for Windows 11, is the newest standard of a technology that was developed almost 20 years ago as a means for establishing "Trusted Computing" and enhancing DRM measures (see: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/rec...52&dswid=-5253).

Pushing users to enable TPM by default will make it much easier to start marketing something like the Microsoft Store of being capable of TC-enhanced DRM. For example, a year or two after launch, an update could require you to be running Microsoft's hypothetical new DRM software in order to run any apps downloaded from the Microsoft Store - enforced using the TPM. The option to disable Trusted Computing might still exist, in this hypothetical, but would prevent you from using most / all licensed software. The TPM could also be used to force the devices owner to run certain software desired by the manufacturer or required by government regulation.

This would definitely help Windows market the Microsoft Store to 3rd parties, and is in direct alignment with their originally stated goals for Trusted Computing and DRM, and the original purpose of the TPM.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27637115

Short for Trusted Platform Module, a TPM stores encryption keys and performs other cryptographic functions, and Windows uses it to seamlessly decrypt your PC’s disk at boot, among other things. A TPM 2.0 module is a “non-negotiable” requirement for boosting Windows 11’s security baseline, says Microsoft, and that apparently won’t be changing.