Microsoft isn't really blocking laptops from installing Linux, Lenovo says [Update]

Sounds silly to me. When you have Windows, you already bought it. When you bought a Lenovo, 99% of the time, you bought a Windows license with it.

So you can see it makes no sense to prevent someone from installing Linux when they already paid for a seat on the machine.

That all said, it goes back to why Linux wasn't widely accepted when it first came out.....drivers. The same thing happened when Vista was launched but that's none of my business (Adobe, ATI, Kodak to name a few). For Linux, originally it was determined that users would create their own for each flavor. The Open source community acted and now we have drivers for just about everything.

No Trailblazing

How many people really install Linux as an additional boot sector? Most people I know who use Linux use it as a VM.