Someone wrote in [personal profile] mjg59 2011-09-23 02:26 pm (UTC)

What does this mean?

The article is not very clear.

Does it mean that there will be hardware that refuses to boot anything that is not signed by Microsoft? (due to "incentives" provided by Microsoft)

If so, I assume that would be a gross violation of Antitrust laws everywhere and Microsoft should be brought to court ASAP over it if it happens, and warned in advance of this beforehand.

If instead it just means that the BIOS/bootloader won't give you "warm fuzzy security feelings" when you boot something not signed by Microsoft, most likely nobody really cares.

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