At its WinHEC hardware conference in Shenzhen, China, Microsoft talked about the hardware requirements for Windows 10. The precise final specs are not available yet, so all this is somewhat subject to change, but right now, Microsoft says that the switch to allow Secure Boot to be turned off is now optional. Hardware can be Designed for Windows 10 and can offer no way to opt out of the Secure Boot lock down.
The presentation is silent on whether OEMs can or should provide support for adding custom certificates.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Saturday May 30 2015, @07:52AM
I'm sure the European Union competition regulators would love to bite deeply into a Microsoft or hardware manufacturers that attempt to lock out the competition. And manufacturers that plays along with the Microsoft agenda may be specifically targeted by people with deep coding skills and bad karma in their book. In a free for all scenario.
Any good ideas? ;)
Again this does however prove the point that Microsoft acts in bad faith and should be counteracted at all times.
Otoh, "smart"-phones have this kind of locked bootloader. And look what that got them. Rooting, jailbreaks etc. So alternative OS may come with that inside the installation manager. Ie first install blessed OS, then run special installer to get a real OS.