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stmuk writes:
"BGR reflects on recent comments by a Metro designer. 'Metro is a content consumption space,' Microsoft UX designer Jacob Miller explains, 'It is designed for casual users who only want to check Facebook, view some photos, and maybe post a selfie to Instagram. It's designed for your computer illiterate little sister, for grandpas who don't know how to use that computer dofangle thingy, and for mom who just wants to look up apple pie recipes. It's simple, clear, and does one thing (and only one thing) relatively easily. That is what Metro is. It is the antithesis of a power user.'"
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(Score: 5, Informative) by dilbert on Wednesday February 19 2014, @01:24PM
UEFI by itself is not a problem.
Secure Boot, which is a component of UEFI, can be used to limit what type of code can be run on the computer. As it *currently* stands, Microsoft has required OEM's to allow Secure Boot to be disabled on x86/x64 machines if they want to use the 'certified for Win8' sticker on their machines.
Obviously Microsoft (or the government) could change that requirement at some point in the future.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:31PM
Are you sure? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U [youtube.com]
To be fair the video is a bit old and maybe issues have been resolved. But it does seem fundamentally terrible.