Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> | One of the more questionable tactics that Microsoft has implemented in
> | Vista is to automatically overwrite any existing MBR during the
> | installation process without asking if you mind or giving you an option
> | to back up.
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> | Microsoft says that the Windows installation system can't intelligently
> | interrogate an existing non-MS MBR, although such features are quite
> | common in the install routine for other OSes.
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> | It also argues that an "official" Vista MBR is required for security
> | features -- such as measured boot, which works with Trusted Platform
> | Module (TPM)-enabled chips to check that the OS hasn't been hacked or
> | altered each time it boots -- to work correctly.
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Windows is such total rubbish!
GNU/Debian/Linux has found and respected other OS's on the same machine for
years, automatically giving the other OSes or Linux distros a GRUB or Lilo
entry so the user can select which they would like to boot.
Windows ... pay more ... for less.
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indeed listen to. Trolls are not among those people, as trolls, more or
less by definition, *promote* ignorance.
Kelsey Bjarnason, C.O.L.A. 2008
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