Can you give more information about what the stated purpose of the upgrade was? Surely they didn't actually tell you they wanted to brick your laptop remotely?
This causes major problems for laptops that are ever located inside bags.
Best to do that without telling your customers that long established behaviour would kill it. Dell.
clueless VPs want their products to behave like Apple's, but then beancounters won't sign a budget for iteration. MVP is shipped, turns out it's always buggy.
Or is this more of a "Who's going to notice that the functionality they use every day has been disabled?" kind of idea?
The only feature here is that you're no longer allowed to do something that was an important part of how the computer worked. That's the headline of the press release, and the goal of the software.