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Windows 8 Secure Boot may lock out Linux

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40hz:
Um...Did you guys miss that Hyper-V 3.0 is being included?  Sure you may not be able to dual boot traditionally, but you can still install it in it's own virtual machine.
-steeladept (September 23, 2011, 01:58 PM)
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Nope. The Linux world didn't miss it either.  ;)

Microsoft has no problem with Linux running under Windows - where it will basically just be another application.. That's why they've been contributing so much code lately. Almost all of it is to allow Linux to run better under Windows.

We're actually all waiting for the footnote on the ads to say something like:

AND if your business is using applications written for Linux. Microsoft Windows is now the perfect HOST SYSTEM for running them on...

Yeah. Swell. Just everybody buy your own copy of Windows and Microsoft will be cool with you running Linux on your PC. No need to even buy a separate license for all the IP Microsoft claims they could sue you for if they really wanted to... :P

steeladept:
Microsoft has no problem with Linux running under Windows
-40hz (September 23, 2011, 04:19 PM)
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Except that Hyper-V is not Windows.  It is Microsoft, but it is the hypervisor that Windows runs *on* and could just as easily be XenServer or VMware ESXi (okay, XenClient and VMware doesn't have a client-side equivalent...yet).  Linux can run *on* it too.  In fact, it already does in many, many shops.  Linux is NOT running *on* Windows in this case, just with it.  (Unless you want to stretch the definition of Windows to be *any* OS that Microsoft creates) 8)

40hz:
(Unless you want to stretch the definition of Windows to be *any* OS that Microsoft creates) 8)
-steeladept (September 23, 2011, 05:37 PM)
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I do.  ;D

steeladept:
Well that makes it simple  ;D

Edvard:
I have a theory...
It's obvious Microsoft REALLY wants to be in the phone and tablet business, viz. Windows 8.
But they can't beat Apple (the only competition as long as they keep ignoring Linux/Android) at their own game UNLESS they play the only card that would work... price.

If they can sell enough Windows 8 tablets at a loss or near-loss to undercut iPad sales, Secure Boot makes sure the Penguinistas don't snap them up and turn them into cheap Ubuntu tablets (which is EXACTLY what happened with all those HP Touchpads that went on fire sale for $99) and MS has their very own hardware-locked shiny shiny to impress shareholders with.

Simplistic, I know, but it seems crazy enough to be true...  :huh:

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