Seems like a very trouble some stuff here, a chicken or egg problem, as a computer user, I'm not paranoid enough to use this "feature". On industrial level, I believe this might be a choice.
Moving to Windows 8 is a hard choice for most users - new investment, brand new pc and not able to upgrade to Windows 9 or a better OS - is a curse.
What I expect is - this feature will have an option to disable it, if it does not, then we will see it in court. So, in short, its pretty much useless and back to the 80s BIOS stuff. I also suspect this will be enabled by default by major manufacturers and ignored by 99% of computer users, until Win 9 comes out/switching OS/PC needs rescue they realized they need the D F Manuals.
Windows OEM manufacturer will get blamed and users at a losing side, OEM manuf is playing with fire.
Lets watch in 2 years time http://www.google.com.my/search?hl=en&q=disabling+EUFI Current: 444,000 results
Early problem winner goes to- http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W520-UEFI-and-Bitlocker/td-p/439857
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Date: 2011-09-27 08:03 pm (UTC)Moving to Windows 8 is a hard choice for most users - new investment, brand new pc and not able to upgrade to Windows 9 or a better OS - is a curse.
What I expect is - this feature will have an option to disable it, if it does not, then we will see it in court.
So, in short, its pretty much useless and back to the 80s BIOS stuff. I also suspect this will be enabled by default by major manufacturers and ignored by 99% of computer users, until Win 9 comes out/switching OS/PC needs rescue they realized they need the D F Manuals.
Windows OEM manufacturer will get blamed and users at a losing side, OEM manuf is playing with fire.
Lets watch in 2 years time
http://www.google.com.my/search?hl=en&q=disabling+EUFI
Current: 444,000 results
Early problem winner goes to-
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W520-UEFI-and-Bitlocker/td-p/439857