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Date	Process	Result
September 30, 2014	Guild of Copy Editors	Copyedited
October 4, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 17, 2014.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Terry Myerson compared the technological differences between Windows 10 and 7 to the differences between a Tesla and a first-generation Prius?

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Section sizes

Section size for Windows 10 (36 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	25,222	25,222
Development	8,423	51,520
Announcement	13,183	13,183
Marketing	2,041	2,041
Release	12,336	12,336
Free upgrade offer	15,537	15,537
Licensing	2,047	2,047
Features	8,233	60,251
User interface and desktop	6,621	6,621
System security	7,261	7,261
Command line	7,166	7,166
Storage requirements	3,585	3,585
Online services and functionality	14,755	14,755
Multimedia and gaming	12,293	12,293
Font support	337	337
Editions and pricing	8,168	8,168
Support lifecycle	6,381	16,569
Hardware exceptions	2,803	2,803
Extended Security Updates	2,465	2,465
Support and update branches	4,920	4,920
Updates and support	8,281	36,970
Preview releases	2,535	2,535
Versions	42	42
Feature updates	19,894	19,894
Features in development	6,218	6,218
System requirements	16,864	18,803
Physical memory limits	967	967
Processor limits	972	972
Reception	12,635	55,238
Market share and sales	9,922	9,922
Update system changes	10,156	10,156
Distribution practices	11,389	11,389
Privacy and data collection	11,136	11,136
See also	231	231
References	43	43
External links	814	814
Total	275,876	275,876

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Windows 11 24H2 will take over TPM 1.2 support from Win 10.

> In the lede: ... [Windows 10 ] is the last version of Microsoft Windows that supports ... and TPM 1.2

Windows 11 edition 24H2 for the x86-64 platform, predicted to reach general public by the end of 2024, reduces the long-held TPM 2.0 pre-requirement of Win11 to TPM 1.2, thus becoming the (supposedly) last version of Microsoft Windows to support TPM 1.2 84.236.41.150 (talk) 11:02, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, that sentence wasn't exactly correct. I've now clarified the TPM 1.2 and also the BIOS reference. That being said, Microsoft has actually officially supported TPM 1.2 on select OEM systems (upon Microsoft approval) since the release of Windows 11. Although now possibly it seems like the installer requirement/check (clean installs only) for TPM 2.0 was silently reduced to TPM 1.2 starting with 24H2. The official requirement remains at TPM 2.0, however, on "proper" Windows 11 version 24H2, based on all currently available sources. Winderz IoT (talk) 21:24, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Add that its the last version to run on machines without SSE4.2/POPCNT since only the drop of x86-32 is mentioned for CPU requirement changes Unlikethesun (talk) 08:24, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. A reliable source like a news article would also show that the detail is relevant enough to add to the article. FifthFive (talk) 00:33, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Going by official requirements, this is redundant, as all TPM 2.0 CPUs, along with the official list of supported CPUs, support SSE4.2/POPCNT. Going by unofficial, Windows 11 23H2 is the last version to support machines without SSE4.2/POPCNT. Winderz IoT (talk) 03:41, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and added that Windows 10 is the last version to lack a CPU whitelist, since that was previously missing. Winderz IoT (talk) 13:48, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]