Australian users may have a case on windows 8

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Submission + - Australian users may have a case on windows 8 (zdnet.com.au)

Submitted by

lukemartinez

on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @04:26AM

lukemartinez writes: "The Linux Australia community began petitioning the ACCC this week after Microsoft aired plans to mandate the enabling of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface's (UEFI) secure boot feature for devices bearing the "Designed for Windows 8" logo. This means that any software or hardware that is to run on the firmware will need to be signed by Microsoft or the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to be able to execute. This would make it impossible to install alternative operating systems like Linux..."

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