Microsoft: Secure Boot does not exclude other systems

Microsoft: Secure Boot does not exclude other systems

Microsoft has responded to the fears, the Secure Boot Support of Windows 8 could prevent the start of Linux. In an MSDN article explains Windows chief Steven Sinofsky to UEFI mechanism that prevents the start of unsigned bootloader. He makes it clear that you also start to Secure boot-capable computers unsigned systems, unless the user allows it.

Would have on the Microsoft conference for developers build distributed Tablets with Windows 8 completely off in their setup is an option, Secure Boot. Ultimately it is for the manufacturer, the possibilities they implement in their firmware. Microsoft makes no guidelines as regards the firmware settings to secure the boat.

[Update]

Red Hat employee Matthew Garrett, who had brought the whole discussion has to roll, in a blog post out that Sinofsky is contrary to his original analysis at any point. Secure it with a boat going difficult or impossible to install alternative systems. A certification for Windows 8 requires true that the hardware supports Secure Boot, but neither that the user can turn off the safe boot option, nor the Mitlieferung other key than that of Microsoft. Some hardware manufacturers, so Garrett had already said that they did not make Secure Boot disabled. If such systems are shipped with a Microsoft-only key, it is not possible to install another operating system.