Just stumbled upon a interesting article concerning a hush hush feature that will be rolled out with the new Microsoft windows 8.
The new "feature" is intended to help defend against root level threats to the new windows kernal and various API's basicly as it stands if computer manufacturers do not provide a key to unlock the "secure" boot loader native to the new distro the customer base will not be able to boot/mount any foreign OS choices. effectively keeping the average user from having the choice to try different OS's.....
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/21/062231/How-Microsoft-Can-Lock-Linux-Off-Windows-8-PCs
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