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[ NNSquad ] Re: Microsoft locking down the PC

On 9/21/2011 3:28 AM, Lauren Weinstein wrote: 
Microsoft locking down the PC

http://j.mp/mQrrol  (Dreamwidth)

     "Microsoft requires that machines conforming to the Windows 8 logo
      program and running a client version of Windows 8 ship with secure
      boot enabled. The two alternatives here are for Windows to be signed
      with a Microsoft key and for the public part of that key to be
      included with all systems, or alternatively for each OEM to include
      their own key and sign the pre-installed versions of Windows. The
      second approach would make it impossible to run boxed copies of
      Windows on Windows logo hardware, and also impossible to install new
      versions of Windows unless your OEM provided a new signed copy. The
      former seems more likely.  A system that ships with only OEM and
      Microsoft keys will not boot a generic copy of Linux."

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What will be the effect on virtualization of WIndows 8? Developers, security researchers, and corporate IT departments will be very unhappy if it can't be done.

There may be legal objections based on restraint on trade and interoperability.