Microsoft tries to block Linux off Windows 8 PCs

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Sep 23 18:11:12 UTC 2011


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Of course given existing windows versions aren't signed, any machine
> that requires this to work, won't work with existing windows versions,
> so the changes of that happening seems pretty slim.

Perhaps MS considers it to be an "incentive" to buy another copy of 
Windows, whether you need it or not.  Also, since most computers come 
with Windows, that really isn't much of a problem for new systems.

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