Posted on 12/14/2012 7:02:28 AM PST by ShadowAce
I give it a couple month before some hacker finds a crack or workaround that allows users of other operating systems to “spoof” the cryptographic keys and make secure boot think it’s actually loading Window’s 8
IMHO, anyone making the PC boards with this Secure Booting, they should be boycotted. Even Apple allows for Linux both under the former PPC and Intel platforms. I use to do multiple partitions in Apple but now using VMWare to run Linux.
Microsoft makes me sick, and I work as a MS systems engineer. They’re due to be smacked down, and I have a feeling both Win8 and Server 2012 are going to do that. People are not ready nor do they want touchscreen desktop OSes, and forcing it on them is not the way to go.
The idea of putting a touchscreen server OS on the market is absolutely retarded. MOST datacenters are lights out, meaning no personnel on the floor during business hours. Remote KVM solutions like those provided by Avocent are not prepared for touchscreen use and thus will cause a problem. Is Microsoft going to acquire some KVM solution and sell it as a market brand for people who want to use 2012? How about remote system access utilities like HP’s iLO, Dell’s iDRAC, or IBM’s APM? You’re talking about increasing bandwidth requirements, end-to-end touchscreen capabilities, and myriad other issues with these types of deployments.
I’ve already recommended to my leadership teams that we finish upgrading to 2008 and stay put until Microsoft either pulls their head out of their ass or a better alternative comes around. Messing with UEFI in such a way as to render a machine locked down to a specific OS goes against OS freedom.
Enjoy the PC you own, now.
In the future, you will only be able to rent.
I find it ironic that so-called “open-source” Linux has been used in the Mobile/Tablet world to pioneer the Secure Boot lock-down of the hardware you bought, and think you own.
I won’t buy any hardware that locks me into Windows. It’s my hardware I own it...
Can I get on the ping list?
My gosh - the Linux community is the Republican Party! Who knew? :)
Linux is “clunky” and has limited application. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to use Linux in any serious application. About like using Com.....64.
You’ve been added. Welcome Aboard!
Please do some research and learn what you are talking about before spouting off some obviously uninformed and incorrect comment.
I think you are a decade behind on knowledge about Linux...
All of the semiconductor design industry runs on Linux- both desktop and server. Almost all of the server industry runs on Linux.
I think the article is funny, how they blame the victims for this astounding exercise of power by Microsoft to dictate a proprietary and closed system to control the very boot of a computer.
Is it a mountain or a molehill?
I see the future and it doesn’t include a MS as big as today. They’re really under pressure. Cloud Drives are just a step on the road map to true Cloud OS. Windows for the PC is becoming stagnant ... how much more innovation can they come up with? Windows 8 out and out sucks ... the Metro interface is kind-of stupid. I immediately uninstalled Windows 8 and returned it to Best Buy saying it was a piece of junk.
The real money is going to be in small device OS’es, and Android is far a head of MS in that game, so is Apple’s IOS.
Linux is heading for a big jump in the next 3-8 years as Valve Inc is spearheading a Linux Gaming revolution. MS will even start losing console market share as Valve Inc grows.
The future is a bare bones OS that boots and OS from off the network.
rEFIt works great for OSX. They’ll come up with something similar for this nonsense by MS.
I *NEED* to run multiple operating systems. If MS prevents that, they become an enemy.
I could say you're nuts, but I'll refrain and just let you know I was thinking about it.
Computing is not limited to playing games and cerfing for porn and MS and windows are still pretty well much a toy as far as real computing goes, such as scientific, corporate, transactional and scalable computing and huge database engines.
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