Re: Incompetent shitshow of a company
"IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH MICROSOFT, GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER AND START BECOMING A SERIOUS OS!"
They literally are, hence why they're mandating drive encryption!
"IHow in the name of fuck does Apple manage to encrypt their computers with no sudden "enter your key" messages after an update, whereas this is a regular occurrence with Microsoft? It's same old, same old with MS - lack of quality control, strongarming their customers into a corner and moving the goalposts."
Apple employ hardware encryption because they control the full device spec, whereas Microsoft are obviously reliant on third parties implementing looser standards, although this was the hoohah behind Windows 11 requiring on-CPU TPM - its a guarenteed standard that prevents people shipping devices unable to support the security standard.
As for unlocking the device, Apple use an identical process to Microsoft - Primary key stored in the TPM/Enclave and a backup recovery key that needs to either be stored in a cloud account (365 or iCloud respectively) or written down/saved to an external drive. Your Apple devices security processor can fail/be cleared just like a Windows device TPM and your system drive won't unlock...