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And yet what we see progressing with the likes of Win11 and WEI is that they're working deliberately and tirelessly to make the majority of the PC landscape int
by nurple 3y ago
And yet what we see progressing with the likes of Win11 and WEI is that they're working deliberately and tirelessly to make the majority of the PC landscape into appliances like phones. Perhaps someday I will be arrested for connecting to the internet with a pre-TPM machine.
- p_l 3y agoArguably Microsoft is funnily enough on side of consumers in that, comparably to many others, because their business incentives match up with ensuring that there has to be a way to be a real owner of the machine. They did bend to allow Protected Video/Audio Path, but those aren't backed by TPM - they are backed by Intel ME, they are most probable reason AMD PSP isn't open source, they are part of the reason HDMI 2.0 can't be supported properly with open source components. But so long as Microsoft wants to have certain high-paying customers interested, it's going to offer and push systems with more owner control than some.
- nurple 3y agoSure... enterprise and gov customers. But I think their moves with win11 show that they view most windows users as products, not customers. Even Apple lets big customers sideload apps, but not the product class of customer.
- p_l 3y agoApple explicitly makes it so that they keep the keys to the machine in ways you cannot deal with. Microsoft, in order to support enterprise and government clients, pushes certain policies onto hardware manufacturers. While it's not the same as pushing it for everyone, enterprises being at times stingy means you can acquire relatively cheaply hardware that is "certified" for Microsoft Windows Enterprise - where Microsoft certification requires certain owner-friendly policies (including complete removal of vendor keys from secure boot and resigning everything with your own).