Qualcomm Producing Quad-Core S4 for New Laptop Class

[alcalde]

[citation][nom]loomis86[/nom]I don't believe this is true...or at least doesn't necessarily have to be true. Exibit A: Rasberry Pi[/citation]

You don't understand. Microsoft is making part of their Windows Logo Certification that any device shipping with Windows on ARM has to have a locked, encrypted bootloader that prevents loading any other OS onto it. This is going to be a new laptop class, so they're naturally going to ship with Windows 8 On ARM, which means they'll be stuck with Windows 8 On ARM forever; no chance to put any Linux, Android, WebOS, whatever (even later versions of Windows) on it.

Raspberry Pi is a development board with an ARM processor and doesn't have anything to do with ARM laptops.

 

[loomis86]

[citation][nom]alcalde[/nom]You don't understand. Microsoft is making part of their Windows Logo Certification that any device shipping with Windows on ARM has to have a locked, encrypted bootloader that prevents loading any other OS onto it. This is going to be a new laptop class, so they're naturally going to ship with Windows 8 On ARM, which means they'll be stuck with Windows 8 On ARM forever; no chance to put any Linux, Android, WebOS, whatever (even later versions of Windows) on it.Raspberry Pi is a development board with an ARM processor and doesn't have anything to do with ARM laptops.[/citation]


That doesn't matter. You are not describing an ARM flaw, you are describing a MS flaw. MS can push whatever they want. The market will push back.

 

[alcalde]

[citation][nom]loomis86[/nom]That doesn't matter. You are not describing an ARM flaw, you are describing a MS flaw. MS can push whatever they want. The market will push back.[/citation]

I still don't think you understand. There is no OS market. Microsoft is a monopoly with the power to contol the market. As Matthew Garrett of Red Hat said, not even Intel could dictate this requirement the way Microsoft has. Laptops are sold with Windows, period. In order to get certified you have to comply with MS' locked bootloader requirement, period. To sell a non-certified device is market suicide, period. When MS is 90%+ of the OS market and Linux is 1.4% of the OS market, there is nothing to push back with. The only hope in my opinion is a threat of legal action, or a loophole in the requirements.

 

[jryan388]

cant wait to see ARM performance in win8