Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

Key Schmidt khbgschmidt at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 1 17:43:21 UTC 2012


Am 01.06.2012 13:17, schrieb Alan Cox:
>> AFAIK, Microsoft is already doing something like that with Windows drivers.
>> They must be signed by Microsoft, in order to avoid a warning thrown in your
>> face upon installation. I think that current Windows OS will just refuse to
>> install an unsigned driver, for any hardware.
>
> On current Windows its just about possible to disable this. I believe on
> windows 8 it may not be. Just as on Windows 8 you can't install certain
> types of apps except from Microsoft's web store.
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh852635.aspx
>
> Alan
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In Win 8 it's still possible to override.....verified!!

Key


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