Re: sounds very convenient
1) Why would they need that? There's no reason why that is necessary to make it work. A standard installation is all that is necessary, followed by the usual fetching of drivers as required following a sniff round the hardware in the machine.
2) None I should think, see 1)
3) They're going to have to put extra code into the EFI partition, and that can easily incorporate the necessary drivers. That partition is trivial to nuke if one wants Linux instead, so it would have zero impact on non-windows OSes.
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