Microsoft defends 'secure boot' for Windows 8 - Technology - GMA News Online - Latest Philippine News: "Breaking its silence on the matter, Microsoft this week defended its upcoming flagship operating system Windows 8's use of a "secure boot" policy, which some programmers said could potentially lock out other operating systems, such as Linux.
Tony Mangefeste of the Microsoft Ecosystem team said "secure boot" is not a Windows 8 feature but a protocol of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
"Windows 8 utilizes secure boot to ensure that the pre-OS environment is secure ... Secure boot doesn’t 'lock out' operating system loaders, but is a policy that allows firmware to validate authenticity of components," he said in a blog post.
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