Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting

LOL - their "Linux Problem".
Linux still, even after all these years and promises, is not a problem for Microsoft in the desktop environment.
 
Well, if bundling IE with Windows was ruled anticompetitive, I can only imagine how the European courts would look on this! I doubt we have anything to worry about.
 
It isn't more unreasonable or indeed any more illegal than Apple refusing to support Adobe's Flash Runtime on their platform. And this only affects Windows certification not the underlying principle of a PC as an open platform. Since UEFI standard is modular, it is simply a matter for the OEM to provide a secure environment module, which the end user can choose to use or not, depending on requirements. Linux will adapt as it always did. :) Furthermore, multi-booting in the age of virtualization is somewhat of a basket case scenario. ;)
 
datalol-jack said:
It isn't more unreasonable or indeed any more illegal than Apple refusing to support Adobe's Flash Runtime on their platform. And this only affects Windows certification not the underlying principle of a PC as an open platform. Since UEFI standard is modular, it is simply a matter for the OEM to provide a secure environment module, which the end user can choose to use or not, depending on requirements. Linux will adapt as it always did. :) Furthermore, multi-booting in the age of virtualization is somewhat of a basket case scenario. ;)
Click to expand...
I am confused about that, it seems Apple can do some things & get away with it. Plus the whole IE thing, is dumb. I never liked it, I used dadada ANOTHER BROWSER, just because something is included doesn't mean you have to use it.
 
The standard way of pirating vista and 7 is to install a custom bootloader, that chainloads the windows one under false pretences. I imagine this move is an attempt to avoid exactly the same thing happening to windows 8.

I'm fairly sure the EU will consider this anticompetitive. Almost everything is after all.
 
OMG... and why would you want windows 8? any advantages over XP yet alone 7? apart from the +1 and touchscreen? Not counting Vista because it was a catastrophe - but seriously I still have windows 1 XP partition to play the games I cant play in wine :(.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom