

Windows devices with Pluton will use the Pluton security processor to protect credentials, user identities, encryption keys, and personal data. The architecture limits or eliminates certain forms of attacks that are levelled against current setups with TPM chips. Unlike TPM chips, Pluton is built directly into the CPU. Microsoft Pluton is a security chip that the company developed in collaboration with AMD, Intel and Qualcomm. Some points need further explanations regardless of that.Ĭurrent Windows 11 Professional builds and final versions will require a Microsoft Account during setup already, and the change could be in preparation for the next version of Windows. Microsoft has not confirmed any of this outside of new job postings, and information that is available is scarce. Parts and bits of Windows 10X will be used.Įverything has to be taken with a grain of salt currently.TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot will play a larger role.


Microsoft plans to drop part of the old foundation of Windows that is part of all versions of the operating system, including Windows 11.Windows 12 will be a very different operating system according to the information that has been revealed so far. Swift on Security removed the post later on from Twitter. Sources are not revealed, but all state that the info is coming from Microsoft directly. Security researcher Swift on Security, our German colleagues from Deskmodder, and several other websites claim that Microsoft is working on the next version of Windows already.
