Linked by Adam S on Wed 5th Apr 2006 12:57 UTC, submitted by Thomas Ganter
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2005-07-06
Maybe their motivation was to get control back on this before too many people install bootmanagers and loaders created by 3rd parties on the internet. This way they can still do things like botting into OS/X by default and only booting the alternative WinXP when the Alt key is pressed down. I think defaults are very important to "influence" the behaviour of your users (as you can see with all these spyware apps changing the startpage of your browser...)