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Authored by: darkonc on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 04:43 PM EDT
The security problem with Windows is Windows, itself. Of the tens of thousands of viruses that come out for Windows every day, how many of them depend on corrupting the Windows core OS? 10? 15? 2?

For the rest of the MS-Windows viral load (i.e. almost all of it), secure boot does you zero good. It's not so much that it's not secure enough, as it is a case that there's almost nothing worth trusting it for.

And, given that the cost is that you won't be able to load a better/more secure OS when you decide you want to use (or even test) it -- and, even more importantly -- that you won't even be able to threaten Microsoft that you'll do so -- that's a pretty high cost for almost zero value.

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