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Windows 8 secure boot - the end of dual-booting
  • m0rph
    Posts: 332
    I saw this article:

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20111545-83/microsoft-addresses-windows-8-secure-boot-issue/?tag=mncol;title

    So, basically, Microsoft is implementing this new craptacular secure boot option with Windows 8 that will inadvertently prevent people from dual-booting if they want to. I guess all of the drivers that come with the computer you will want to buy will have to have Microsoft certificates, otherwise secure boot won't work.

    I guess, yeah, from a security standpoint, it's cool, and will stop people stealing laptops or infiltrating a company and throwing in a thumb-drive with a live distro on it (for example), and being able to read files. However, it also limits the user to what they can do with their own property. Which, we all know, is not something we like to be told as hackers. If it's ours, we should be able to do with it as we please.

    Any thoughts?

    I think this is just a feeble attempt by Microsoft to try and boost sales in an already SOMEWHAT (not completely) monopolized market. At least, seeing as how they continually fail miserably in the mobile-phone market.
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  • Sh3llc0d3
    Posts: 1,910
    Windows 8 secure boot - the end of sh3llc0d3 using windows.

    EDIT: I think I honestly will stay with windows 7, i'm not paying anymore to upgrade legitamately. If and when I think the time is right (probably after Uni) I'll end up using linux 99% of the time.
  • Sh3llc0d3
    Posts: 1,910
    Here you go m0rph... a vid of what it will 'probably' look like.

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  • Mr. P-teoMr. P-teo
    Posts: 269
    ^ this is microsoft trying to enforce there will on everything, Overly Complicated, and over thinking the graphics, no thanks lol
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  • Blackout
    Posts: 10
    microsoft its just triying to continue whit his monopoly, before give huge gifts to companys tfor only sell pc with microsofts operative systems now force to regular users to not dualboot whats nexts
  • Sh3llc0d3
    Posts: 1,910
    I did like Dells attempt to use ubuntu on some of their netbook (i believe) never caught on thought I don't think.
  • m0rph
    Posts: 332
    @Sh3llc0d3 thank you for posting the vid, now I know for a fact I will not be buying Windows 8. Yeah, one can argue that it's in the development stage...but, I am not impressed at all. I'm not going to pay ~$350 for an OS that looks like a terrible children's drawing, and has the functionality of one. Yes, I agree, once all of my stuff has been moved, I will be using linux the majority of the time.
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  • Sh3llc0d3
    Posts: 1,910

    looks like a terrible children's drawing



    I said that pretty much exactly to someone else about it lol. It does look like they've got a 10 yr old to do the designing.
  • flawless
    Posts: 18
    well i hear you bro, well for me i spend most of my computing time on Linux and most of the time i do my uni work in Linux since it requires it anyway, Windows in general its a failure and i think it will fail this as-well because it going to motivate us to write something to bypass this feature
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