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| Thread ID: 120785 | 2011-09-26 07:01:00 | Microsoft going to lock windows 8 on machines, no linux or other os. | nedkelly (9059) | PC World Chat |
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| 1233731 | 2011-09-26 09:04:00 | What a laugh -- :p jiggle the strings and the puppets will jump. :D Please not the very first line of THIS article (www.winrumors.com) The key words "A Redhat employee has gone on record to speculate that OEM machines that ship with copies of Windows 8 may lock out support for Linux installations. One person has their head screwed on ---xEmilyTheStrangex near the bottom of the first page of comments. this is soo crap, but what would you expect from someone from redhat? i only expect crap if they talk about microsoft. really... if a HP or dell or asus or Lenovo, or gigabyte or whatever company makes or computer hardware or the ones that build them and then sells them, decides to use UEFI its not like you can blame Microsoft for it. when Microsoft released directx11 companies HAD to make new cards directx11 compatible?? NO! they made it because it was a good new thing that was released and would be used, not much but its used. so this is crap but those people... i like this part thought "Linux distributions would need a non-GPL bootloader which differs throughout GPLv3 and v2 requirements" i wonder how many would want to install Linux though. not because Linux is bad but because if they see " this computer has UEFI" and they are like "oh i want to install Linux along with windows 8" do you think Asus or Gigabyte or other companies will only release UEFI motherboards? no! just like they don't with usb3, like they still release am2+ motherboards, like they release with crossfire or Sli. and its not like Microsoft wouldn't let people without UEFI install Windows 8. its like if Asus decided to stop making motherboards with usb and only add thunderbolt ports... would it be Intel fault? no! that means people have to check what they are buying. and see if it fits their needs Dance little puppets dance :lol: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1233732 | 2011-09-26 09:06:00 | Dance to the Ballmer jingles :D | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1233733 | 2011-09-26 09:15:00 | Dance to the Ballmer jingles :D:lol::lol: Nicely put :thumbs: Sorry R2x1 TO LATE (www.youtube.com) One other comment in the article I wish the media would stop portraying UEFI as if it is some Microsoft-proprietary invention to lock-out competition. The UEFI was established by a consortium of companies including Apple and Microsoft as a replacement for the IBM-compatible BIOS MS are not going to lock out hardware/software to a single version of Windows - EG W8, it would be suicide to do so, no one would buy the OS and would simply stick with what they have, unless it came preinstalled on the PC -- vista anyone :p OK sure there may be options to do so, but for that to happen by default all the hardware manufactures world wide would have to agree, and thats not gonna happen. Imagine the damn law suits MS would get hit with. All the malware writers would get hold of the codes / keys, manipulate them and away they go, for some people who have the skills writing code to by pass these functions would be as easy as falling off a log. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1233734 | 2011-09-26 10:07:00 | This is just for some OEMs, you can still buy other OEM and Retail editions that will operate in 100% the same way Windows 7 does today. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1233735 | 2011-09-26 13:22:00 | A different article I read said that this feature would be totally optional and could be turned off in EFI\BIOS etc. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1233736 | 2011-09-26 21:05:00 | I'm always amused when people get all upset about things before they are implemented based on their assumptions of what it will mean. How many times have I read "xxx feature will ruin windows, everyone will go to linux/ macOS/ older version of windows/ etc" Hasn't happened yet. Yes there have been some annoying things done, but on the whole PCs in general continue to improve and get more user friendly despite a few hiccups along the way. If microsoft or anyone else did implement anything that truly upset their customers enough for them to start looking for alternatives you can bet they would soon backtrack and find a way to make it work. It's all about profit after all, and if noone likes your product you don't make money. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1233737 | 2011-09-26 22:30:00 | Agreed. Nobody is up in arms about Chromebooks doing similar things! It's good from a security perspective. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1233738 | 2011-09-26 23:35:00 | Agreed. Nobody is up in arms about Chromebooks doing similar things! It's good from a security perspective. Are you saying Chromebooks let you run other OS or not? I would much rather run a real OS on a machine than some cloud-based joke. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1233739 | 2011-09-27 00:43:00 | It's happened already, rofl, the two links given above are still "grinding away" clockwise. Perhaps we need W7, lol. Lurking. Ps. will go and mow the lawns and see if they do connect. lurks. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1233740 | 2011-09-27 00:58:00 | It's happened already, rofl, the two links given above are still "grinding away" clockwise. Perhaps we need W7, lol. Lurking. Ps. will go and mow the lawns and see if they do connect. lurks. ??????? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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