[Cialug] Restricted boot a very real possibility

[Josh More]

The point I was trying to make involves branding.

If no computers are listed as "Windows 8 Compatible", the first manufacturer
to cave and do this gets a disproportionately larger slice of the market.
This provides encouragement to the other manufacturers to get "compatible"
so they can defend their slice.  Over time, this means that everyone has a
compatible system.  Sure, it's just sticker, but those stickers are on
almost all systems available today.  Microsoft used to require that to get
the "Windows 98" sticker, manufacturers were contractually forbidden from
offering any alternate operating systems.

It worked.

I think that this will work too.


-Josh More


On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 04:44:02PM -0500, Josh More wrote:
> > How many keyboards do you see out there that don't have the windows logo
> on
> > a key between CTRL and ALT?
>
> Mine don't.
>
> Again:
>
>  Microsoft has announced that if computer makers wish to
>  distribute machines with the Windows 8 compatibility logo,
>  they will have to implement a measure called "Secure Boot."
>
> We're talking about "machines" right?  Not keyboards?  If the article is
> wrong then let's ignore it and/or find a better one.
>
> Nicolai
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