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No one wanting Windows 8 may be one reason MS is doing this
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 10:29 PM EDT
I'm fairly sure the IT techs will just go limp here and chortle as they make life hellish for the vendors: "I'm sorry, HP, but we can't purchase any of your desktops. They permit booting of unauthorized software, and that's not acceptable under our policies. What unauthorized software? Windows 8, of course, It's not on our list, and if your machines can't block it we're not allowed to purchase them.".

I'm sure the vendors will chortle knowing that it's effectively an impossible request, and will reply "Of course, we understand. If you should find yourself unable to identify any vendors capable of meeting that specific requirement, please call on us again and we will be pleased to provide you with a product at a competitive or leading price point that meets all your other requirements". They will then let the idiot clients waste hours of the clients' purchasing agents' time calling other manufacturers to get the same answer.

The only risk is that some manufacturer might be willing to lie about providing that capability and afterwards pretend to have misunderstood the request because the obvious interpretation was impossible and therefore presumably erroneous.

Instead of wasting their time calling up vendors to ask for an impossibility, competent IT staff will prefer to spend the time explaining to IT executives that the requirement is impossible and that trying to satisfy it will only ensure buying computers from a vendor that is either incompetent or willing to lie to their customers.

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I don't understand...
Authored by: Ed L. on Friday, June 01 2012 @ 11:06 PM EDT
Why can't the corporation just hash their custom WindowsN build, pay Verisign the one-time $99 fee for a corporate key, and get on with life? Like Fedora, but without the ethical qualms?

What am I missing?

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So far I think it's only ARM
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 12:20 PM EDT
The other processor makers have an option to implement but MS has a requirement
that ARM only support the TCM stuff for Windows 8. I predict that ARM
processors and Windows 8 will not be something that people (or corporations)
seek out.

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