> Your criticism may be reasonable; but does it really cut at the heart of the issue?
The article hardly provides any support for its "closed ecosystems" thesis beyond this anecdote. Whatever the situation is on this hardware (and wmf's sibling comment points out that there might indeed be something odd going on), it seems far more likely that it's the result of sloppy engineering by Dell and/or Microsoft, rather than a deliberate plan to restrict user choice (or something).
I'm the OP, yes I did not provide much evidence in that specific article, and I'm getting to the point, based on responses that there might be some irregularities between search methods for model specific drivers, so Im willing to admit I might be wrong about this, but the security features that are included in consumer hardware BIOS these days and the way OEM manufactures are designing OEM products leads me to believe that we are moving in a direction that is more closed and locked down, which its not good for the enthusiast community and in the long term, bad for society. We can even see this in other system build vendors ASUS. I have published other articles [0] related to what I believe a slow move towards locked down consumer hardware.
The article hardly provides any support for its "closed ecosystems" thesis beyond this anecdote. Whatever the situation is on this hardware (and wmf's sibling comment points out that there might indeed be something odd going on), it seems far more likely that it's the result of sloppy engineering by Dell and/or Microsoft, rather than a deliberate plan to restrict user choice (or something).