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I'm calling what comes next -- Eventually when Win11 has enough penetration, there will be some sort of "Boot into Xbox mode" for a cheater-free PC-gaming experience.

If it doesn't come with Win11+TPM, it will come from this: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/11/17/meet-the-...

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And once 90% of computers support this, governments will make "measured boot" a requirement in order for a computer to go online at all, enforced by ISPs.

Perhaps, for backwards compatibility, "insecure" computers that don't implement this will be allowed online, but they will have to either be registered or have something like the "evil bit" set on all their packets so that sites (like banks) can refuse connection to them.

You can see how well that's working with SafetyNet right now. Rooted phones can't even use Snapchat.

This is almost already a thing, and if this does happen, it will surely be an extension of "Game mode":

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/games-apps/game-setup-an...

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