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Stories about: Secure Boot |
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Microsoft is again facing legal action in Europe, this time after a Linux user group has decided to sue the Redmond-based technology giant for the restrictions it implemented into its new Windows 8 operating system. According to a report by Reuters, Hispalinux, a 8,000-member Linux community, has filed a complaint a... |
26 March 2013
09:31 GMT |
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Back in October when Microsoft rolled out the new Windows 8, the company also introduced a new technology called Secure Boot that could block the deployment of other operating systems on computers shipped with the new Windows contraption.The Linux Foundation recently released its own Secure Boot System to get past Wi... |
16 February 2013
12:11 GMT |
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A few days ago we learned that Windows 8’s very own anti-rootkit feature called Secure Boot blocked Acronis True Image 2013 from starting its recovery system, even though the company claims the software is fully compatible with Microsoft’s new operating system.
Of course, Acronis’ application ... |
18 January 2013
10:09 GMT |
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Another day, another Windows 8 issue. This time, it appears that Microsoft’s latest operating system is blocking Linux-based recovery environments, including Acronis’ very popular True Image software.
Consumers who try to boot from a recovery image are blocked by Microsoft’s anti-rootkit option and... |
15 January 2013
15:01 GMT |
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Matthew Garrett, ex-power management and mobile Linux developer at Red Hat, proudly announced last evening, November 30, that a usable release of the Secure Boot bootloader is now available for download. Dubbed shim, this software is designed for all Linux-based operating system that want to support secure boot and t... |
1 December 2012
13:52 GMT |
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Canonical, through Jon Melamut, announced on September 20th that they will plan to implement support for Secure Boot in the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system.
Therefore, after a discussion with Free Software Foundation, Canonical decided to drop the EFILinux bootloader implementation in favor... |
21 September 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Dr. Richard Stallman, one of the most influential and important people in the Linux community, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, has spoken openly about the dangers of UEFI.
In an interview for bytesmedia.co.uk, Dr. Richard Stallman has outlined that UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Inte... |
18 July 2012
04:17 GMT |
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Free Software Foundation has published a document in which it attacks the Secure Boot policy and Microsoft, and criticizes the position of Canonical. Canonical has taken its own side in this debate that is slowly becoming more important, with the release of Windows 8 getting closer and closer. According to the Fre... |
3 July 2012
11:58 GMT |
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The same as Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 was built from the ground up to provide increased security capabilities to its users. The platform, set to become commercially available sometime in the fourth quarter of the current year, will provide increased device and application management capabilities as well, to offer ... |
28 June 2012
16:11 GMT |
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One of the features that Microsoft has been long touting for the new Windows 8 platform is its secure boot, which is meant to be a powerful tool against malware. Powered by the new UEFI bios, the platform can easily protect users against malware such as rootkits and other similar malicious software. At the TechEd... |
27 June 2012
16:41 GMT |
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A number of Microsoft fans are seeing the new Unfied Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) as an efficient way to improve a system’s security. However, the main issue is that the Windows 8 licensed hardware that will incorporate the secure boot feature will only be compatible with this particular OS.
While most... |
12 June 2012
04:38 GMT |
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Windows 8 is the first version of Microsoft’s platform that brings along support for touchscreen displays and offers optimizations for tablet PCs. The platform will arrive on the market before the end of the year, and will be loaded on Intel-based devices. Next year, however, we should see Windows 8 loaded... |
16 January 2012
07:40 GMT |
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Red Hat and Canonical, both announced a few minutes ago, October 28th, on a short press release that it published a white paper called UEFI Secure Boot Impact on Linux.The companies are also collaborating with The Linux Foundation, in order to make hardware manufacturers think twice before implementing the new "Secur... |
28 October 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Users will be in full control of their PCs and will be able to install any operating system they want, Microsoft stressed, ending the controversy over the possibility that Windows 8 machines with UEFI Secure Boot could lock out third-party platforms. Not the case, the software giant says.
Tony Mangefeste, from Mi... |
23 September 2011
08:30 GMT |
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Although he acknowledges that there’s nothing to panic about yet, Matthew Garrett, mobile Linux developer at Red Hat, posted a blog post designed to raise some concerns over the possibility that Linux might be locked out from Windows 8 PCs because of the new UEFI secure boot feature.
One of the new security... |
22 September 2011
08:59 GMT |
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By now, the 8 seconds Windows 8 boot video demo is bound to be familiar to folks following the evolution of the next version of Windows, including Softpedia readers. What Microsoft did not reveal when it made the startup demonstration public is the fact that the amazing level of performance is achieved even despite ... |
13 September 2011
12:11 GMT |
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