[SmokingJoe]

“This does stink though. For whatever reason, certain users may NEED to dual boot, and the option should be there.”

The option IS there.
Watch this video on Windows 8 boot process from Microsoft themselves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxyxlMWCXM

You should know better than trust the tabloid, gutter journalism from the notorious British site “The Register”.

[Wayne07]

The article is talking about booting to a non-Microsoft, non-signed OS. Of course you can dual boot into other installs of Windows. I do think the article is probably a little hyperbolic - you’d probably be able to disable the functionality.