[Ubuntu-eg] Funny Micro$oft Article

Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com
Fri Sep 23 18:06:59 UTC 2011


You may enjoy reading
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5552.html
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5850.html

Unfortunately it's not really a Windows "feature", in fact it's
not related to Windows at all. It's a market monopolist abusing their
position to milk the market by forcing hardware vendors to make it hard for
anyone else to install alternate OSs

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Amahdy AbdElAziz <amahdy7 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/09/microsoft-attempt-address-windows-8-linux-worries/
>
> I can't laugh enough about the whole thing, specially this:
>
> *You want me to disable a security feature so I can boot into this Linux
> thing? *
> *
> *
> We need to make an anti-buy campaign for any PC being sold without a switch
> off option, though, I'm pretty sure that someone will come up with a killer
> crack for this very soon, before even the final release of failure8 (aka
> failure #8).
>
> -- Amahdy AbdElAziz
> http://www.amahdy.net
>
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