[DC LoCo] Windows 8 Spells Trouble for Linux, Hackintosh Users and Malware Victims

[Michael Haney]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:57, N.C. Weber <ncweber00 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Iyaz Aktar on the Tech News Today podcast (http://twit.tv/tnt) mentioned
> > Wubi and Virtualbox as possible workarounds for this, but that there
> would
> > still be issues with LiveCDs.
>
> FWIW, Wubi modifies the bootloader, which is something that will
> probably not be allowed.
>
>
As I said I see possible Anti-Trust suits coming soon as a result of this.
Someone somewhere is going to challenge this in court.

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