Now it is clear why Microsoft wants to give away WIndows 10! Windows 10 will have no option to turn off secure boot - meaning that you will not be able to boot your system with anything else than Windows 10.
You cannot bot it with Windows 7 and you can not boot the computer With Linux and you cannot boot it from LiveCD's. Making the hardware exclusively for Windows 10 will probably be "optional" for the manufacturers - meaning that if they want a dime from Microsoft they should make the computers Windows 10 only.
Hardware can be Designed for Windows 10 and can offer no way to opt out of the Secure Boot lock down.
In Windows 8 you could turn the secure boot off with the exception of some "faulty" hardware (a fault probably rewarded handsomely by MS)
I was wondering why Microsoft was so eager to give Windows 10 away - even to pirates.
It was reasonable to suspect that it was a matter of control. And now it becomes clearer and clearer that Windows 10 is yet another step to exclude anything else than Windows from the computer.
Laymen may buy the security aspect of this, but it I am not at all sure that the entities surveilling markets will accept this exclusion.
Windows 8 computers already had the secure boot as a default - there is no added security in taking the "turn off secure boot" option away - or very little since people keep the default.
In general taking the flexibility out of the hardware is not a good thing for the consumer - it also hinders fair competition.
(Here is a tip Nadella - Let people chose Windows because they want it because it is the best. Having to exclude the competition is a poor display of lack of confidence.)
In any case it will be illegal to sell computers like this in Italy
The safest car is the one that cannot drive - do we want that?
This is a sneaky approach from Satya Nadella I think I prefer Steve Ballmer; at least he was honest about it.
Microsoft Loving Linux? Yeah right - smokescreen of the century
Boikot any hardware producer that delivers laptops that cannot switch of secure boot and keep a particularly close look on Dell and HP. These may drop the option of switching off secure boot for "patriotic" reasons.
After having built up some goodwill again; Microsoft really stepped in it here.
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