I don't think they're trying to "hide" at all. They're using UEFI. You people had years to either influence the direction of UEFI or request some changes. But what did you do? Nothing? Even when Google implemented for Chromebooks you did nothing. Only when MS decided to implement this standard do you take issue with it and then pull out all the tired old arguments about monopoly and big bad MS. This is the same company that most of you claim is irrelevant daily. But now suddenly they're their late 90's invincible force.

Your complaint here is with the UEFI standard first, and OEMs second. MS can't speak for what OEMs will do. But I imagine most will offer a "disable secure boot" option. And if the blog author knows of OEMs who won't, why doesn't he list their names?