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 Yog-Yogguth on Saturday May 30 2015, @03:06PM
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
Guess geeks will start using servers ar private workstations..
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Saturday May 30 2015, @10:00PM
Yeah that too.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 01 2015, @01:50PM
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
Think 19" rack, dual PSU, lot's of blinken lights etc. ;-)