On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.muktware.com/news/3217/did-microsoft-just-kill-ubuntu-tablets > > There is no doubt that Canonical is looking at the ARM based hardware for > its tablets. But Microsoft seemed to have nipped Ubuntu's Tablet in the bud. > The company tweaked its Windows Hardware Certification Requirements to > effectively ban most alternative operating systems on ARM-based devices that > ship with Windows 8.
>From the above statement, as I read it, only hardware that comes pre-installed with Windows will have this problem. If so, why would one want to buy a tablet pre-installed with Windows if one intends to run Ubuntu on it, in the first place. And since Android, iOS and Linux still form majority of ARM based devices, I wonder if any manufacturer would be brave(stupid?) enough to lock these OS's out. If that is so, let manufacturers sell devices with pre-installed Windows, which have this feature. You would anyway not want to pay MS-tax or do you like to? -- With Regards, Mehul Ved _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
