An engineer in the Kernel development does not have insights into any of these kind of strategies. What you can see from the outside that this is a move of the

An engineer in the Kernel development does not have insights into any of these kind of strategies. What you can see from the outside that this is a move of the Visual Studio management to preserve their revenue stream (against which they get bonus etc). It is just stupid incentive management with the idea that the developer division is a profit center (which it should not .. in favor of Azure). This secure boot topic is IMHO related to some product manager thinking that Windows laptop should be protected walled gardens like Apple devices are.