Yes, you doubt rightly since Surface RT ARM-based devices did not sell much = like Win 10 Mobile smartphones = abandoned and forgotten by M$ like a bad dream.ĭesktop Windows is a bloated and resource hungry OS, compared to MacOS and Linux. I doubt that there will ever be a solution to the RT issue. So, you should be quite secure from Secure Boot and the Win 10 "malware" from M$. Nevertheless, M$ may still exert pressure on the OEMs to take up on her "offer", eg by using her market-monopoly power or by offering more discounts for OEM Win 10 Volume Licenses. If the OEMs do so, there will be much hue and cry from computer buyers and users. As of today, no OEM has taken up on M$'s "offer" to disallow Secure Boot to be disabled. Before that M$ had mandated the OEMs to allow Secure Boot to be disabled after vociferous opposition from the tech industry and computer buyers/users, ie when UEFI and Secure Boot were first mandated by M$ on all new OEM Win 8 computers in 2012. UEFI Class 2 allows Legacy BIOS mode in System BIOS.įor the launch of Win 10 in 2015, M$ gave a new mandate to the OEMs that it was up to their discretion whether they wanted to allow Secure Boot to be disabled or not by the customers.
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M$ Win 10 Surface devices do not allow Legacy BIOS install mode because of the newer UEFI Class 3 standard requirement. This should be the same for today's Win 10 on ARM devices/netbooks. Is this a real risk, so that a firm promise from the dealer that this will not happen should be sought before the order is placed?Ī few years ago, ARM-based M$ Windows 8.1 RT Surface devices do not allow Secure Boot to be disabled. I am uncertain whether at present there is a risk that a new machine may come with Secure Boot on and without the option to disable it in the bios settings.