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Windows 10 May Make the Secure Boot Lock Out a Reality for Alternate OSs

posted by martyb on Saturday May 30 2015, @01:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish dept.

ticho writes with an Ars Technica report:

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Saturday May 30 2015, @08:00AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday May 30 2015, @08:00AM (#190022) Journal

    Raspberry Pi and others are really nice computing platforms. But they don't beat a 4 GHz multicore multimegabyte cache setup with terrazillions of fast I/O. So motherboard lockdown is a problem.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:06PM

    by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:06PM (#190120) Journal

    Microsoft isn't exactly a king of (or arguably even a noticeable competitor in) either the “serious server” market nor high end computing nor massively parallel computing, if they attempt a lockdown of such boards they'll be laughed at and ignored.

    Any lockdown would almost exclusively hit the consumer and SOHO and “corporate thick client” markets (tablets, notebooks, laptops, desktops, workstations, relatively small servers).

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    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 30 2015, @04:53PM

      by kaszz (4211) on Saturday May 30 2015, @04:53PM (#190147) Journal

      Guess geeks will start using servers ar private workstations..

      • (Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday May 30 2015, @10:00PM

        by Yog-Yogguth (1862) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 30 2015, @10:00PM (#190228) Journal

        Yeah that too.

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      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 01 2015, @01:50PM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 01 2015, @01:50PM (#190697) Journal

        We don't already? Imagine that - I'm ahead of the trend with my Opteron!

        • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 01 2015, @10:42PM

          by kaszz (4211) on Monday June 01 2015, @10:42PM (#190924) Journal

          Think 19" rack, dual PSU, lot's of blinken lights etc. ;-)