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Microsoft is not willing to answer questions on Secure boot

Posted: 07 Aug 2012, 10:49
by viking60
Microsoft is not interested in communicating about secure boot. This is bad news for other OS'es
The two web pages mentioned in the reply were ones I had already read - last year. In them, Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live division, explains the process of secure boot in great detail with some nice colourful charts, and also gives an overview of the additional security that will be available in Windows 8 compared to earlier versions of Windows.

They tell one exactly nothing as to why secure boot was adopted.

It seems reasonable to assume, thus, that Microsoft wants no part of any reasoned discussion on the issue and does not feel accountable to the public about what it does.


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Re: Microsoft is not willing to answer questions on Secure b

Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 13:51
by gnuuser
they want no part of dual booting schemes at all
any other distro is competition
every person who switches to linux is costing them future income
hence the reason for all the stupid patent crap if they can get away with legally stifling the competition then the consumers will be forced to buy their s#!t-ware