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> is also scared about Microsoft's strategy here? Terrified. I'm expecting the next round of secure boot to come, this time without the ability to disable or a
by BuildTheRobots 6y ago
> is also scared about Microsoft's strategy here?
Terrified. I'm expecting the next round of secure boot to come, this time without the ability to disable or add your own keys. To the people that complain they can't boot linux, I expect the response to be "but you can run linux from windows, silly!"
- FpUser 6y agoIt is I think possible but not very likely
- Analemma_ 6y agoI've been hearing hysteria about "Microsoft is going to block people from booting Linux!" since like 2005. They don't even do it on their own line of hardware. If they wanted to do it, they would have by now.
- pedro2 6y agoThey removed the requirement of Secure Boot being deactivable from OEM requirements.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoWhen was that ever a requirement?
- the8472 6y agoSurface models running Windows RT (windows on arm) had locked secure boot where you couldn't replace the master keys.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago"Surface RT" / "Windows RT" was never intended to be sold by other OEMs though.
- MikeTheGreat 6y agoOut of curiousity, is WinRT / SurfaceRT sold at all anymore? I thought that died and got buried a while back.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago* “Windows RT” - no. That’s now normal Windows 10 for ARM, now devoid of that arbitrary restrictions present in “Windows RT” (“Windows: Really Terrible”). * “WinRT” - yes. That’s the new COM+WinMD platform API added in Windows 8 (and initially only available to “Windows Store apps”) and incrementally improved since then and now part of UWP but it’s existence is weird. Some parts of WinRT are available outside of UWP but it’s a confusing mess. * “Surface RT” - Yes, the “Surface 2” and then the “Surface Pro X”. Note that the Surface RT and Surface 2 were both locked-down to only run Windows App Store programs whereas the Pro X (and all post-Win10 ARM machines) are not artificially restricted this way.
- pedro2 6y agoThere was the requirement for x86, by Microsoft, during the Windows 8 times, that Secure Boot to be possible to deactivate in the BIOS. That is no longer the case. https://www.techspot.com/news/60132-microsoft-leaving-option-disable-secure-boot-up-oems.html https://www.techspot.com/news/60132-microsoft-leaving-option...