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For laptop-style devices it's in the firmware configuration. For phones, well, can you link to the instructions for disabling it in iPhones? Microsoft's restri

by mjg59 8y ago

For laptop-style devices it's in the firmware configuration. For phones, well, can you link to the instructions for disabling it in iPhones? Microsoft's restrictions here are abhorrent, but they're also not outside the industry norms. The "Windows ARM devices must enforce secure boot" thing dates to the only Windows ARM devices being phones and tablets, and it's been updated now that that's changing.

beagle3 8y ago
> For laptop-style devices it's in the firmware configuration. The discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15855195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15855195 indicates that, as of 7 months ago, this was not the case if those laptop-style ARM devices (the linked policy on microsoft's website is now 404). > The "Windows ARM devices must enforce secure boot" thing dates to the only Windows ARM devices being phones and tablets, and it's been updated now that that's changing. It included Surface RT with keyboards, which were esentially laptop-style, at the point in time where Microsoft was still expecting other manufacturers to adopt RT (IIRC there were even a couple of samsung laptop models, quickly dropped).