Microsoft tries to block Linux off Windows 8 PCs

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 3 17:48:59 UTC 2011


On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:41:21PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> Sigh, no. Windows 8 will not boot without UEFI and there is to be no
> way for the user to disable UEFI. In other words if the motherboard
> makers don't include UEFI they know they will loose the Windows market
> (ie: 90+% of their sales). This may suck to the system builders, but
> they are not going to sacrifice that big a share of their market...
> Again have a look at :
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/21/secure_boot_firmware_linux_exclusion_fears/

Windows 8 will work without UEFI and will boot.  However you can't get
a Windows 8 Certified logo on a box that doesn't have UEFI with secure
boot enabled by default.

People can still buy and install windows 8, but any machine that wants
the "windows 8 logo" has to meet those specs.

Windows 7 64bit already works on both UEFI and BIOS based systems,
and windows 8 won't be any different.

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