At work we use quite a few Dell laptops.

If I had the time, I would install Windows from scratch on each and every machine anyway, just to get rid of the insane amounts of, uh, stuff that typically come preinstalled on machines these days.

But the only cases where I could justify the effort were machines for our automation people, because those came with Windows 8/8.1 preinstalled, and currently, Siemens only supports their Simatic/WinCC software on Windows 7.

Sigh Does anybody know of an easy way to remove this certificate?

I seriously would like to know what's in it for Dell. I mean, creating the certificate and putting it into their install images meant additional work.