Without this climbdown, it would have been virtually impossible for users to remove the rootkit-like engine from the firmware. El Reg hopes other manufacturers aren't doing the same with the WPBT.
What is worrying is that all of this is pretty much what Microsoft intended. Its WPBT is engineered to allow manufacturers to painlessly inject drivers and programs into the operating system. It's supposed to be used for things like anti-theft tools, so a system can be disabled via the internet if it's stolen.
But it also turns rootkit development and installation into a painting-by-the-numbers exercise. Lenovo got caught because its engine had crap security. And it sounds as though Microsoft pressured Lenovo to kill it.
I would recommend this machine to any company using CAD to make a living, as well as many engineering applications where there is a reasonable amount of calculations being performed in the background while continuing to work in the foreground. As for FEA, analysts know what level of hardware they need, so I will simply say that this machine is solidly into the lower end of meaningful productiveness, and handled single, non-multi-physics runs for us with no problem.
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