Tom Callaway wrote:
Do we want to support dual-booting with Windows 8? Microsoft
describes
SecureBoot enablement as "Required for Windows 8 client" [1]? What does
that mean? We're not sure. At best, it means that BitLocker isn't going
to work, at worst, big chunks of Windows 8 functionality will simply
refuse to function until you turn SecureBoot back on.
You are assuming here that there will not be some cracker (or even just some
frustrated dual boot user) patching this requirement out of Window$ 8 (no
matter whether doing that is legal or not). (See what has been done to OS X
and its restriction to Apple hardware only.)
The problem there is clearly on the Window$ side, nothing we can or should
do about it.
Kevin Kofler