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

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-fear... -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.