During the last days several users have begun to report that certain Lenovo computers with Windows 10 are totally blocked, limiting not only the installation of certain applications but also the installation of other operating systems.
Apparently everything is due to Windows 10 Signature Edition, a completely clean and closed version of Windows 10 as previously happened with Windows RT, except that this time you cannot even access the hard drive. The situation is causing a stir because these computers are laptops and desktops to which you want to install a different operating system and cannot.
Various brands indicate that their Windows Signature Edition PCs don't do the same as Lenovo's laptop
But the thing currently goes further. Both Microsoft and other manufacturers have disengaged from Lenovo and warn that on their Signature Edition computers you can install other operating systems as well as certain applications. Lenovo is left as responsible for the situation, something that for the moment has not denied but has not confirmed either.
In any case the system that has been incorporated in these teams is quite closed, superior to the system of the new UEFI bios so it seems that it will not fall on deaf ears and more than one manufacturer or company will try to do the same with their computer equipment or products, so that no other user or malware can get hold of control of the computer or device, but Is this really a solution?
The truth is that more and more "safe" solutions appear as they want to send us, but really few are and many have security problems like the Blackphone, although we must say that with cases like San Bernardino iPhone, the truth is that systems such as the Signature Edition certificate are Do not you think?