@arstechnica @ruawhitepaw doubt it. this is about companies like apple doing things like bricking your phone when it detects a third party battery. what windows is doing is keying your installation to certain HWIDs to prevent you from swapping the hard drive into a new computer because the license you bought only applies to one computer. I imagine windows hardware locks will have to be addressed in a different way. I could be totally wrong though 🤷