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They're used to have the desktop monopoly, and losing them makes them to literally lose sleep over the matter.

It's not a matter of security, it's a matter of monopoly. Since forever.

It's not that they can't do security without going full authoritarian, I think they do it because they want to go authoritarian. The new security benefits are just a vehicle.

They're a lot like the common politician who smuggles horrible laws into relief bills or trade treaties. UEFI (especially on the ARM platform) and intel ME are to examples of this.

Yes. Look at the zeroday clusterfuck that is Teams.

To Microsoft, security is an excuse for a land grab.