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| Authored by: DebianUser on Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 04:09 PM EDT |
I find it hard to imagine motherboard manufacturers can
afford to sell products that are unable to run Windows from
version 8 forward.
MS is using their present hold on the market to lock
alternative systems out of using new hardware. The days of
"try out this bootable Ubuntu CD" are going to be gone,
especially after governments and ISPs are pressured to keep
"unsafe hardware" off the internet. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- UEFI - Boot - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 08:30 PM EDT
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| Authored by: nsomos on Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 09:22 PM EDT |
I can easily imagine a two-pin header on newer motherboards,
where the simple addition of a shunt or jumper is enough
to disable the secure boot. It is not like any software
virus is going to reach out and physically insert said
jumper in order to be able to infect that Windows 8
machine. For convenience, you could even run that to
an externally accessible switch. I would argue that the
Win 8 setting should be marked 'allow malware'.
If such an out were NOT provided, then those making such
a machine would not be able to sell to businesses who
will not yet accept Win 8, no matter what MS says.
Someone else pointed out that virus makers could
pay the $99 to sign their own work. Of course, but
then there would be a trail as to who might be responsible
for the malware.
Someone else wrote that secure boot might be the
kiss of death to dual-booting Win 8 with anything
else. I can imagine though, that if Linux booted
first, that virtualization might allow Win 8 to
boot. Win 8 would never know, and could not tell
that it was NOT running inside a virtual box.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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