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The root of trust in Secure Boot is typically an OEM certificate, not Microsoft's, which is probably even worse: https://www.binarly.io/blog/pkfail-untrusted-platform-keys-u... In …

This enables hardware owners to specify custom kernel driver signing requirements, enabling kernel mode code to run without having to submit it to Microsoft for signing. For an in-…

Yeah, that original name is corroborated by Raymond Chen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20171114-00/?p=97...

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The backside fingerprint reader could even be used as an input device on some models for scrolling, or pulling down/up the notification bar. Great for scrolling through content or …

Even before the virtualization-based security feature was introduced this has been the Hyper-V architecture, on server and client SKUs. The management OS is referred to as the "par…

This is true for certification, which is mandatory for Server OS, distributing through Windows Update, or certain classes of drivers such as anti-malware or biometric authenticatio…

Driver Verifier is a tool that developers can choose to use for testing and debugging purposes. It's not used on production machines and it does nothing to prevent a badly written …

> They actually advise OEMs not to install this second key by default ("Secured Core" PCs), and some vendors have followed the advice, such as Lenovo. Resulting in yet another hoop…

> I think drivers are going to be the biggest PITA for ARM-based PC users for the first couple years — for example, Google Drive doesn't work for that reason. Google Drive does shi…

> MORE PADDING everywhere It's so ridiculous. You ever wanted Explorer's "details" file list view to have horizontal blank space between rows so rather than selecting the nearest i…

This was initially reported over 2 months ago when it first showed up in canary builds. Microsoft, at the time: "This is an issue in the latest Canary Channel build and the loc fol…