I've changed my mind: this is a good thing
No, I haven't lost my mind, I've changed it. Bear with me on this.
One of the major BOFH challenges is to give people who have no clue about IT gear that will work, yet resists their attempts at screwing it up. Yes, you got it, board members and management.
I see those as the exact target market for these devices. They're expensive enough to make a notable dent in the budget, thus confirming the recipient's "status" (aka "only the best" - at least that's what we tell them), yet it is restrictive enough to stop them from doing anything stupid and this time Microsoft did it "for their security" so you cannot be accused of blocking them.
These laptops are ready made gilded cages for management level users - clever move.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
