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ZDNet - Mary Jo FoleyMicrosoft officials told attendees of the recent Build developers conference that Windows 8 clients must be certified in UEFI mode, and that support for secure boot is a Windows 8 certification requirement. But even though Microsoft is requiring OEMs to support secure boot in UEFI as part of its certification requirements, "OEMs are free to choose how to enable this support," the new post said
In other words, with Windows 8 certified systems secure boot support has to be there, but OEMs can decide whether or not they want to allow customers to be able to turn it off and how they handle the signature process for supported operating system versions. In the September 22 post, officials said that Microsoft designed the Windows 8 firmware to allow customers to disable secure boot in the Windows 8 Developer Preview release if they so choose
Microsoft: Don't blame us if Windows 8's secure boot requirement blocks Linux dual-boot | ZDNet
Maybe the policy has changed since that article (2011-09-23).
I actually assume that MS can't tell OEMs how to implement it or they'd cop some US DoJ action.
Last edited by lehnerus2000; 24 Nov 2014 at 10:06. Reason: Additional
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One question can windows 8 be removed and still boot to Linux if secure boot is on? I read if it is up to the OEM's to do this a lot of Linux people will not like that. It is hard to find a computer without an operating system or a with a Linux pre-installed system installed. If you do find one computer with Linux pre-installed it cost twice as much. This get into this who owns the computer is it, mine or the oem's? In fact, I didn't like agreeing to dell agreement with mine. You have to agree to this to use the computer, no I don't--I bought it. I am not talking about Microsoft or Dell's EULA either.
I'm not sure about the intricacies of Secure Boot.
I suspect that like DRM, it is only a hindrance to legitimate users.
I think that most Linux Distros have come up with methods (certificates?) to get around the issue.
My PC is a "Frankenstein's Monster", cobbled together from various parts over many years. :)
IMO, off-the-shelf PCs seem to be cheap junk or ridiculously overpriced.
This is just like when they screwed old imacs from updating to lion. You could open them up switch to a 64bit cpu install lion only to learn it wont boot without a modified kernel as they had in the stock one blacklisted serial numbers of the old models. That being said their build quality for the retina macbook pro 15" I own is insane even if it is glued together lol.
I bought an Apple Macbook Air 13" about 6 months ago.
Reason: I only use it as a chess computer, nothing else (I use Hiarcs).
I bought it because it has 12 hr battery life, couldn't find an ultra light Win computer that matched it, and in reality the Air is right about that. They can have that, but...
I've been regretting buying it almost every day since I brought the damn thing home.
NEVER again...
And to think people find this intuitive is beyond amazing!