It would be interesting to know how much influence Microsoft seeks to impose on these new BIOS implementations with their hardware partners and/or how willing t

It would be interesting to know how much influence Microsoft seeks to impose on these new BIOS implementations with their hardware partners and/or how willing the OEMs will be to bargain it away for more favorable licensing terms and hence, profits. We can already see how willing handset makers are to pay them for Android related cross-licensing. That's extending into the realm of ChromeOS now too. I hope the days of installing an alternate OS on garden variety hardware are not numbered, because I suspect the economic leverage Microsoft has vs. the economic incentive for OEMs to ship open hardware isn't enough. Hopefully, I'm totally wrong.