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That's not the point.

I'm not paying thousands of dollars to get something that needs to be "cracked" to work the way I want.

Lenovo will not see a single dollar of mine, ever.

I think that's not really the point here. If the story turns out to be true, then Microsoft is abusing its market power to lock down devices from vendors like Lenovo and friends.

Since Microsoft got into trouble with the EU before, they should know that this could potentially cause another investigation. Hands down, a big company is actively trying to make devices unusable with anything but their software. This is not in the interest of consumers, therefore probably illegal in some regions.

Someone already managed to break it. If I understood it correctly by somehow overwriting the ROM. That's not the point, though, as others have already said.