> Fortunately there are other comments on this article that claim that disabling is practically important for Microsoft, so there's hope...
The obvious being that Win7 doesn't support secure boot and will need to run on Win8 hardware for the foreseeable future, both for home users and businesses. Maybe in 10+ years we'll be having this discussion again, but probably not before then unless secure boot somehow comes to Win7 via a service pack or something (and if MS are content to leave behind users who can't/won't upgrade software).