14 Dec
2012
14 Dec
'12
2:31 a.m.
On 14/12/12 10:50, Jason White wrote:
What best explains the different policies? Anti-monopoly laws? The ARM and x86 competitive situations are different.
Not sure, though when secure boot was first mooted there were fears that it would be locked on x86, so MS then said they would be requiring it to be possible to disabled it. My understanding though is that Windows 8 on ARM is not purchasable separately, you can only get it preinstalled on a device. Given that any ARM devices are locked down already without secure boot it's probably harder to make the argument that MS should do things differently there. cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC