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[CharlesNorrievno0]

May I suggest that if Microsoft goes ahead with th secure boot plan, the hardware market will simply say "we've had enough of your greedy and selfish ways for a good many years and though it has enabled us to sell high end kit, because Windows needs high end kit and then squanders it, we'll prefer to serve the winder market and if that means Linux, the goodby Windows"

[ravi119]

UEFI in itself is bullshit.

Microsoft is afraid of competition.

[stevem26]

If you don’t want Windows– why would you go and buy a Windows PC and pay for a Windows license? Go build your own PC without UEFI if that’s what you really want. UEFI will make Windows more secure. If you don’t want Windows – don’t use it!!

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If you don’t want Windows– why would you go and buy a Windows PC and pay for a Windows license? Go build your own PC without UEFI if that’s what you really want. UEFI will make Windows more secure. If you don’t want Windows – don’t use it!!

No, it won't make Windows more secure. If it did, since UEFI is an Intel property rather than Windows, it would have been employed years ago. The UEFI is not new; the proposed use of it by MS, is new.

Sooner or later someone will figure out how to make a counterfeit key, and bam, there goes the alleged security. Obviously this has to be one reason why UEFI hasn't been employed in the past; it causes more problems than it solves.