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From Juergen Haas, your Guide to Linux
It appears Microsoft has chosen a more literal interpretation of the "Secure Boot" technology and is using it to "boot" competing operating systems from PCs pre-installed with its Windows 8 OS, in particular from the new ARM-processor based PCs.

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