Hello everyone,
well, I've read in a computer magazine this morning about the hardware requirements of Windows 8.
What Microsoft does is basically nothing but turning the PC into a console.
And they'll most likely succeed, because about 90 % of all world-wide PCS use MS Windows.
Their "hardware requirements" are so restrictive that for example the use of UEFI is demanded in a way so that alternitauve OSses like Linux are … at least hindered to be installed and booted - and in the most restrictive variant even blocked out.
In the more restrictive variants regarding UEFI booting the use of alternative firmware is blocked, and thus the including of alternative securitiy keys.
The most restrictive variants of the UEFI hardware requirements demand that a Security key which is used to verify the OS is stored within the BIOS firmware - and through this detail the BIOS manufacturers contriol which OS is allowed to start and which not.
Alternative firmwares are allowed in less restrictive variants, or so I understood it, and these less restrictive hardware requirements allow the "infusion" of security keys to verify Linux OSses.
What these hardware requirements do is basically take away the freedom to install an operating system of the own favour inside of a PC.
The path of this is clear : BIOS manufacturers most likely won't develop BIOSses with allow other OSSes like Linux to be installed - simply because 90 % of all world PCs use MS Windows - or so the article says. And developing BIOSSes and complete mainboards only for a minority will be seen as a financial and economical loss.
With this first step of/in contriolling what's in a PC the next steps appear to be clear : Full control over the hrdware like in the MS XBOX. Or any other console.
Finally, the PC becomes a proprietary machine. Just like any other console.
And when I look art consoles, I see
- games and apps stores
- exclusion of competors in terms of software
- the article muses that even storing data might become "funnelled" after the manufactorer's will
- cloud data storage destroys privacy
- everything will be in the hands of those companies who manufactured the hardware, and those companies which are allowed to use this hardware (installation of OSses)
In principle, this is more or less like I've foreseen last year. I remember that I wrote somewhere that Microsoft might try to turn the PC into another XBOX.
And now they are applying it.
Alrik
well, I've read in a computer magazine this morning about the hardware requirements of Windows 8.
What Microsoft does is basically nothing but turning the PC into a console.
And they'll most likely succeed, because about 90 % of all world-wide PCS use MS Windows.
Their "hardware requirements" are so restrictive that for example the use of UEFI is demanded in a way so that alternitauve OSses like Linux are … at least hindered to be installed and booted - and in the most restrictive variant even blocked out.
In the more restrictive variants regarding UEFI booting the use of alternative firmware is blocked, and thus the including of alternative securitiy keys.
The most restrictive variants of the UEFI hardware requirements demand that a Security key which is used to verify the OS is stored within the BIOS firmware - and through this detail the BIOS manufacturers contriol which OS is allowed to start and which not.
Alternative firmwares are allowed in less restrictive variants, or so I understood it, and these less restrictive hardware requirements allow the "infusion" of security keys to verify Linux OSses.
What these hardware requirements do is basically take away the freedom to install an operating system of the own favour inside of a PC.
The path of this is clear : BIOS manufacturers most likely won't develop BIOSses with allow other OSSes like Linux to be installed - simply because 90 % of all world PCs use MS Windows - or so the article says. And developing BIOSSes and complete mainboards only for a minority will be seen as a financial and economical loss.
With this first step of/in contriolling what's in a PC the next steps appear to be clear : Full control over the hrdware like in the MS XBOX. Or any other console.
Finally, the PC becomes a proprietary machine. Just like any other console.
And when I look art consoles, I see
- games and apps stores
- exclusion of competors in terms of software
- the article muses that even storing data might become "funnelled" after the manufactorer's will
- cloud data storage destroys privacy
- everything will be in the hands of those companies who manufactured the hardware, and those companies which are allowed to use this hardware (installation of OSses)
In principle, this is more or less like I've foreseen last year. I remember that I wrote somewhere that Microsoft might try to turn the PC into another XBOX.
And now they are applying it.
Alrik