This only effects end user consumers of tablets, handsets and whatever other junk Microsoft peddles on the portable market as they have this laughable secureboot enforced on them. Laughable because CAs are 20th century technology and anyody can get a cert and sign away whatever they wish.
I guarantee somebody will null out the UEFI instructions for secureboot or find a way to bypass it within a month of Windows Phone 8 being released and then tell the world how to do it, rendering all this work a waste of time, effort and money.
Release a seperate product that's completely open and give the open hardware specs to bsd and linux devs to work with, or open up all old products. Let the O/S developers drive the device no binary blobs. If you don't one of the Taiwan chip manufacturers will and you'll have lost out to hundreds of millions of future Android handsets.
Then you can continue to swindle the computer gaming market with your ridiculously inflated windows closed source drive bubble and help future proof the company when that market inevitably disappears in a decade or sooner.
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This only effects end user consumers of tablets, handsets and whatever other junk Microsoft peddles on the portable market as they have this laughable secureboot enforced on them. Laughable because CAs are 20th century technology and anyody can get a cert and sign away whatever they wish. I guarantee somebody will null out the UEFI instructions for secureboot or find a way to bypass it within a month of Windows Phone 8 being released and then tell the world how to do it, rendering all this work a waste of time, effort and money.
Release a seperate product that's completely open and give the open hardware specs to bsd and linux devs to work with, or open up all old products. Let the O/S developers drive the device no binary blobs. If you don't one of the Taiwan chip manufacturers will and you'll have lost out to hundreds of millions of future Android handsets. Then you can continue to swindle the computer gaming market with your ridiculously inflated windows closed source drive bubble and help future proof the company when that market inevitably disappears in a decade or sooner.