Chuck Anderson wrote: > It is ironic that in this case, making sure the hardware you buy is > Windows 8 certified ensures that you will be able to turn off Secure > Boot...
We're talking x86 here, right? Has something changed recently that I missed? When I first read about Secure Boot it was made clear that Microsoft required support of Secure Boot on x86, but did not require that there be a user setting to turn it off. They only allowed for that possibility. (Presumably you can boot Windows 8 on a system that doesn't include Secure Boot, but the system won't pass certification. Any vendor not aiming for certification is probably not going to bother to half implement Secure Boot. Leaving it out entirely is the easier approach.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
