"Today at the JP Morgan Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in Boston, Tami Reller shared with the audience that the update previously referred to as 'Windows Blue' will be called Windows 8.1 and will be a free update to Windows 8 for consumers through the Windows Store." They really didn't have much of a choice, but good news anyway.
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Member since:2006-03-03
I don't know if having a locked down computer is an any brighter security measure to enforce protection. The user's knowledge should help more by performing less dangerous actions. See how Linux users breaks less easily their os. Sure there is indeed pretty decent file protection from the beginning, but the hardware access through pipes could breaks the machine perhaps even more easily than on Windows. Yet they experience less troubles.
I'm not wearing rose tainted glasses, if you were worried about.
Kochise
Edited 2013-05-14 21:34 UTC
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Member since:2005-07-12
Secure Boot protects both experienced and inexperienced users in a manner that doesn't restrict their choices or force them to change their behavior. Why is this a bad thing?
Let me reiterate this: Secure Boot does not restrict user choices. It also provides protection from a whole class of common exploits. Not the most common, but still common.
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2005-07-12
Of course you can make your own boot loader. Any PC with the Windows 8 logo will allow you to disable secure boot or install your own keys. This is a requirement for the Windows 8 logo program.
This cannot be overstated: The Windows 8 logo program requires computers to be capable of both disabling secure boot and installing custom keys.
Kochise
A couple of weeks ago I cleaned a friend's computer of malware. Among the various types of malware it was infected with was a rootkit. This was on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine. "I don't get those" is completely meaningless.