[LIS-Forum] Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices

[Dimple Patel]

    Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices
    
    By Aaron Williamson | January 12, 2012
  


At the beginning of
December, we
warned the Copyright Office that operating system vendors would
use UEFI
secure boot anticompetitively, by colluding with hardware partners to
exclude alternative operating systems. As Glyn Moody points out, Microsoft has wasted no time in revising its Windows
Hardware Certification Requirements to effectively ban most alternative operating systems on ARM-based devices that ship with Windows 8.

Read More: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/

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