is Tiny 11 considered "supported"?

Todd Chester 706 Reputation points
2024-06-07T03:53:18.5166667+00:00

Hi All,

Under Payment Card Industry (PCI) guidelines (credit cards), two of the things required are

  1. a supported operating system
  2. surveillance cameras can not be pointed at the monitors so they can not pick up credit card numbers.

Windows 11 24H2 with its CoPilot/Rollback spying will probably get 24H2 knocked out of a PCI compliance operating system for Point of Sale (POS) systems.

Or is may knock users off PCI-SAQ-C/C-VT on to PCI-SAQ-D, which is credit cards stored locally in Recall, even encrypted. D is 20 times more arduous and expensive to maintain than C. Yikes!

Tiny 11, on the other hand, is a stripped version of W11:   

2 gb ram 16 GB drive 2 cores no TPM module no one drive, no Edge, no CoPilot, no spyware account (no even possible), no complaining about hardware requirements.

Tiny 11 does get M$ Updates though. M$ does have a habit of re-enabling things the user disables. (It is nice that M$ has stopped re-enabling Fast Startup.) So disabling CoPilot/Recall is not trustworthy. It would have to be removed, not disabled. And so for M$ has no intention of a removal option that I can tell.

Question: if the user purchases a W11 license for Tiny 11, would Tiny 11 be considered "Supported"?

Many thanks,

-T

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