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The point made is this will stop mass consumers mining, any restriction will likely be quickly bypassed by those technical enough to bypass it.

This is a great video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg__YdXbRtI

Not so much a new driver, but here is an example of drivers being patched for mining. https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch

(1) Many gamers are miners in their spare time!

(2) Big Mining operations actually write their own drivers

(3) Huge Mining operations even use custom boards

(4) I heard that that Nvidia has been selling silicon directly to the big boys (https://wccftech.com/nvidia-allegedly-sold-175-million-worth...)

(5) With this action I expect its only the little guys getting removed from the game here (1) a huge benefit for the big players (2)(3) benefitting the corporations biggest customers (4)

Microsoft is terrible at marketing anything to the common consumer and they always have been. That Windows dominates the consumer desktop dominant is a side effect.

Microsoft must always 2nd tier any consumer effort to their business of business.

This same narrative has been touted for many decades now. I have heard it for 20+ years, yet the rate of windows usage in the quantifiable sense remains has varied only slightly.

There is very low demand for ARM from Microsoft customers, ARM support exists for when and if such demand materialises.