While I agree with the broader point, the number of lives lost is a really poor metric. I don't know why so many people tout it as if it is supposed to prove something. It is one quantifiable measure, sure, but it is a…
You bought an apple for one dollar, then sold it for two dollars a few blocks away. Where did your one dollar come from? Now imagine doing this for fractions of pennies millions of times a day. The money came from…
WindowsRT devices are pretty much that. See Lenovo Yoga 11" with WindowsRT.
Or perhaps they only publish the results when they win. Just like almost all companies out there.
They should do it at the network level depending on congestion instead of at the device level. Why should they throttle someone streaming 1080p video at 3am just because they're using an iPhone?
>Microsoft is not allowing arbitrary OSs to run on Dell's, Acer's, Lenovo's and Toshiba's hardware. Dell, Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba all make Android tablets. At the least, Dell makes Linux Ultrabooks. I don't get the…
I find it hard to believe that there are a lot of people who are tech savvy enough to be able to install, partition disks and configure Linux and bootloader on a Windows 7 machine, but are suddenly unable to turn off…
Even in practice, it stops undetectable bootkits, for example, like this one. http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792235/XPAJ_Reversi...
The Chromebook is doing it right? Really? It wipes your hard disk if you enable developer mode(which is a painful process in itself). And then at every single boot you either have to wait thirty seconds to go past a…
Windows 8 installs and runs on machines without Secure Boot enabled, so I don't understand what you're talking about.
While I agree with the broader point, the number of lives lost is a really poor metric. I don't know why so many people tout it as if it is supposed to prove something. It is one quantifiable measure, sure, but it is a…
You bought an apple for one dollar, then sold it for two dollars a few blocks away. Where did your one dollar come from? Now imagine doing this for fractions of pennies millions of times a day. The money came from…
WindowsRT devices are pretty much that. See Lenovo Yoga 11" with WindowsRT.
Or perhaps they only publish the results when they win. Just like almost all companies out there.
They should do it at the network level depending on congestion instead of at the device level. Why should they throttle someone streaming 1080p video at 3am just because they're using an iPhone?
>Microsoft is not allowing arbitrary OSs to run on Dell's, Acer's, Lenovo's and Toshiba's hardware. Dell, Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba all make Android tablets. At the least, Dell makes Linux Ultrabooks. I don't get the…
I find it hard to believe that there are a lot of people who are tech savvy enough to be able to install, partition disks and configure Linux and bootloader on a Windows 7 machine, but are suddenly unable to turn off…
Even in practice, it stops undetectable bootkits, for example, like this one. http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792235/XPAJ_Reversi...
The Chromebook is doing it right? Really? It wipes your hard disk if you enable developer mode(which is a painful process in itself). And then at every single boot you either have to wait thirty seconds to go past a…
Windows 8 installs and runs on machines without Secure Boot enabled, so I don't understand what you're talking about.