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Yep, the technology is already there.

Just a question of time before they flip the switch for good and force it down everyone's throat and call it "enhanced security and user experience".

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There are so many legacy apps being used in the corporate world, I don't see this realistically ever happening.

So just make that feature exclusive for enterprise versions and reduce the ease for private individuals to obtain one.

Windows S failed hard so they have a new strategy. Every new CPU ships with M$'s Pluton root of trust. For 'security' everything will have to be signed. They consider the user to be the threat actor. Eventually they will charge a percsnt fee for using their signing service.

Have you met my mother in law? She really is.

This sounds like the UEFI Secure Boot FUD from > 10 years ago. That also didn't turn out like they predicted.

The desire for control never went away.

The moment they roll it as mandatory - people would stop updating.

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