hardware security

The Windows landscape has shifted from debate to momentum: after years of cautious uptake, Windows 11 is now the dominant platform for new and many existing PCs, while Windows 10 has moved from “ubiquitous” to legacy following Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end-of-support deadline. This is not a...

If your Gigabyte Z590 board is stopping you from upgrading to Windows 11 because “TPM 2.0” is missing, a small 12‑pin TPM daughter card built around Infineon’s SLB9670 can be the practical fix — but only when you match the right module, the right header and the right firmware. This article walks...

For years Dell’s PC business has been sliding into a slow-motion identity crisis; Jeff Clarke’s reassignment to run the division is the clearest signal yet that the company intends to stop drifting and start rebuilding the hardware culture that once made Dell synonymous with premium Windows...

As of January 2026, the single clearest fact about “Windows 12” is this: Microsoft has not publicly announced a product by that name, and everything labeled Windows 12 today sits in the world of leaks, analyst reads, and educated guesses rather than official documentation. Background Windows’...

Microsoft’s quietly rolled change to BitLocker — moving disk crypto out of the CPU and into dedicated silicon — promises to erase one of Windows’ longest-standing annoyances: the performance tax paid for always‑on encryption. The operating system now includes the plumbing for...

Windows 10’s official lifecycle clock has stopped ticking, and the question for millions of users has shifted from “Should I upgrade?” to “When and how should I move?” The argument that Windows 11 is a straightforward, worth‑it upgrade isn’t just marketing copy — it’s driven by a mix of security...

Microsoft’s Windows 11 is still free for qualifying Windows 10 PCs, but the company’s strict hardware checks have left a large installed base officially “incompatible.” For many users the answer isn’t necessarily “buy new hardware” — there are well‑documented, practical ways to move to Windows...

Microsoft and Marvell have announced a deeper collaboration that brings Marvell’s LiquidSecurity hardware security modules (HSMs) into a broader set of Azure cloud security services across Europe, unlocking eIDAS-grade signing use cases, expanding Azure Cloud HSM capabilities, and promising...

When the last patches for Windows 10 fell silent, I upgraded a secondary laptop to Windows 11 — not because I wanted to, but because support ended and security left me little choice — and, after a few weeks of real-world use, I found I didn't miss much at all from the previous generation. The...

Microsoft’s plan to push BitLocker encryption into dedicated silicon on new Windows 11 PCs marks one of the most consequential changes to client-side disk encryption in years: encryption work will be offloaded from general-purpose CPU cores to on-chip crypto engines, and disk encryption keys...

The push to make PC multiplayer fairer has shifted from server-side bans and heuristic detection to locking the integrity of the machine itself — and the industry’s newest salvo is clear: modern hardware-backed protections like TPM 2.0, UEFI Secure Boot, Virtualization‑based Security (VBS) and...

Microsoft’s push to harden online gaming with hardware-rooted checks — TPM 2.0, UEFI Secure Boot, Virtualization‑based Security (VBS) and remote attestation — has suddenly turned an arcane firmware feature set into something every PC gamer needs to understand, and in practice it could mean your...

Microsoft’s latest push to harden gaming ecosystems puts familiar platform-level building blocks — TPM 2.0, UEFI Secure Boot, Virtualization‑based Security (VBS) and remote attestation — at the center of its fair‑play story, asking players, OEMs and anti‑cheat vendors to rely on hardware-rooted...

Hybrid work isn’t just a change in where people work — it has erased the old network perimeter and shifted the battleground for security into the devices and services people use every day, demanding protection that is felt as absence rather than seen as interruption. Microsoft’s recent framing...

KT’s announcement that it will debut a Microsoft Azure‑based “Secure Public Cloud” (SPC) in Korea marks a deliberate pivot from generic public cloud offerings to a sovereign‑aware platform designed to meet local regulatory, security, and operational expectations — a move that bundles Azure’s...

The debate over Secure Boot, TPMs, and the architecture of modern personal computers has moved from niche mailing lists into mainstream headlines — and for good reason: what began as firmware-level protections against sophisticated attacks now shapes who can run which operating systems, how...

If you’re still holding onto Windows 10 out of habit, inertia, or the simple desire to avoid change, the calendar just put a firm deadline on that comfort: official, free security updates for Windows 10 ended on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft is now steering users toward Windows 11 or a brief...

When Microsoft first gated Windows 11 behind a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 requirement, it wasn't a petty hardware-plugging decision — it was a deliberate, security-first policy that reshaped who can run the latest Windows and how safely that OS can be trusted to protect data and platform...

Utimaco’s launch of Enterprise Key Manager as a Service (EKMaaS) for Microsoft Azure is a practical advance in cloud key custody that gives governments, public-sector organizations and regulated enterprises a hardware-backed, centrally managed option to exercise direct control over encryption...

Utimaco’s move to offer an Enterprise Key Manager as a Service that integrates with Microsoft Azure marks a pragmatic advance for organisations wrestling with data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and cryptographic control in cloud-first architectures. The packaged service promises a fully...