"If the technology delivers value" The technology does not deliver value for users. It has always been intended to benefit Microsoft and their media partners,

"If the technology delivers value" The technology does not deliver value for users. It has always been intended to benefit Microsoft and their media partners, with a bit of window-dressing meant to trick users into believing that they somehow gain from it. This is possible only because the current market for personal computers has almost no meaningful competition. "I just removed a crypto-miner malware from an IT-illiterate friend's windows computer" ...and malware authors will use DRM systems like this to make it harder to detect their malware. Instead of, "Hm, CRYPTOMINER.EXE is spinning the CPU" it will be "Something seems to be spinning the CPU but the platform DRM is preventing me from figuring out what is happening." "some level of platform integrity" Except that this system does not ensure platform integrity. Sure, firmware and bootloader signing can protect against malware or at least give users the ability to reset their system to a good state, but we are talking about a DRM system and that is a very different story. Of course, Microsoft's track record on bootloader security is mixed. They have been willing to allow major Linux distros to get a signed "shim" that can be used to bootstrap grub, but they also made a deliberate and arbitrary decision to forbid vendors of ARM systems from allowing users to disable secure boot. The result is that users who want to run their own bootloader, with whatever risk that entails, have less choice in hardware and are forced to spend more. So while UEFI was generally a win for end user security, it came with a strategic effort by Microsoft to exert greater control over user devices -- something which only benefits Microsoft and which was done only as part of their long-term effort to sell DRM to media companies. The end of all this will be a world where everything looks like the "mobile" ecosystem or video game consoles -- users will not be allowed to run any software that Microsoft did not approve of unless they pay 4-5x more for a computer that has fewer restrictions. Sure, it will make life harder for malware writers -- assuming the approved software does not have tons of exploits -- but it will also mean that Microsoft's interests never get challenged. The only reason anyone will be allowed to run Libreoffice will be competition authorities, and in all likelihood software will be made available based on a user's region (so EU users get to run Libreoffice, but not US users). It will be a net negative for users and for the next generation of developers, who, rather than learning by staying up late with their own computers, will at best only be able to program on their school's computers and only if they are in a wealthy enough school district.