> What if Intel wanted to sandbag existing products to promote new ones? IANAL, but I'd guess that this is maybe similar to Sony removing OtherOS in a firmware

> What if Intel wanted to sandbag existing products to promote new ones? IANAL, but I'd guess that this is maybe similar to Sony removing OtherOS in a firmware update, and that you could sue Intel for it. Or maybe not, since you can actually disable microcode updates.