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In general it is a good philosophy if the school are not under the influence of economic forces, like Apple or Windows ...
* If school would use GNU/Linux instead I thing the students would get a much deeper understanging of the OS. * A lot more peaple would use Linux and thus GNU/Linux would have a much wider spread. * The school wouldn't have to pay for the OS.
On the other hand their work tend to give all the rest of the us work when they just hit the wall with something hard.
Why would they to this? The money you pay for your game is as good if you play it on some other platform.
I have also had this feeling that Google is trying to monopolize the web. Hopefully this is only a misstep or my paranoia.
Chrome is very nice browser, but so is also Opera!
So what you saying is that just because you know some smart guy that owns a lot of money, UEFI is a good solution for fighting malware. I'm not so sure that UEFI is really gone help your friend to be more secure ... maby feel more secure though, which of course is a valid point but probably not because he will see thru it. Maby you friends laptop was due to a bootloader hack but there is easier ways to hack computer then that. I'm not saying that we shouldn't try to do anything about the risks but not this way, because this do only do it harder for everyone else.
Or it might be that the security reason, isn't the only reason for Microsoft to push this?