> They want to protect users with Secure Boot, and still they get a lot of crap for it.
No. That's only to make it difficult/impossible to boot anything that wasn't signed with a Microsoft key. It protects against one kind of rootkit and that's it.
> Apple implemented the Palladium spec pretty much to the letter.
Apple wasn't trying to force the PC industry to implement Palladium (or UEFI Secure Boot). If you buy Apple, you are buying Apple. When I buy Dell, I don't expect to be forced to also buy Microsoft (although I often am).
> Also, wasn't Miguel supposed to be Microsoft's shill or something for introducing Mono for Linux and pushing C# on Linux and Mac?
People change careers.
> Maybe he was just a technology lover all along!
Maybe I just don't agree with his taste for technologies.
No. That's only to make it difficult/impossible to boot anything that wasn't signed with a Microsoft key. It protects against one kind of rootkit and that's it.
> Apple implemented the Palladium spec pretty much to the letter.
Apple wasn't trying to force the PC industry to implement Palladium (or UEFI Secure Boot). If you buy Apple, you are buying Apple. When I buy Dell, I don't expect to be forced to also buy Microsoft (although I often am).
> Also, wasn't Miguel supposed to be Microsoft's shill or something for introducing Mono for Linux and pushing C# on Linux and Mac?
People change careers.
> Maybe he was just a technology lover all along!
Maybe I just don't agree with his taste for technologies.