I'm speculating, but recently there's been a trend to prevent laptops from sleeping by disabling the existing functionality, because... companies hate customers?
This causes major problems for laptops that are ever located inside bags.
This causes major problems for laptops that are ever located inside bags.
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.
Best to do that without telling your customers that long established behaviour would kill it. Dell.