>They're trying to clean up rootkits that load before antivirus to make their OS more secure. And that in no way precludes the options that I outlined. To act

>They're trying to clean up rootkits that load before antivirus to make their OS more secure. And that in no way precludes the options that I outlined. To act as if the OEMs act independently or without significant guidance from MS is just misguided. >Care to tell how? You seemed to have missed the entire bit about it... preventing non-Windows OSes from being installed. You keep citing the developer tablets that have very obvious needs for having an unlockable UEFI implementation. It's just like Chromebooks (the CR-48 is unlockable, retail units not so much), or Android (fastboot on Nexus, locked on Moto/HTC). I just don't understand how you cite a developer tablet as proof, when it's obvious that Microsoft won't take the step to ensure that the choice is available for consumers. I mean, you even phrase it as "Microsoft got them to..." in reference to the developer tablets.