But, as I said in my post, I dont’ see why there’s all this fuss when Secure Boot is optional. Although I’ve read recently that Microsoft is looking to make it mandatory, this is nothing different really than the late 90′s anti-trust era. The only difference is that the playing field has drastically changed.

I do agree though that both virtual machines, as well as just waiting it out, are both beneficial actions too. For example, look at Vista. Microsoft touted it as being the slayer to everything else out there basically, and also claimed it was the most secure OS they’ve released. While they lived up to their claim of secure, it also caused quite an amount of outcry from everything because it was TOO secure

I’d give it a year after official release before trying it, or even looking at it. If Microsoft continues pushing what they have been, I can sense a lot of changes coming to Windows 8′s infrastructure if they don’t want to lose out on a lot of money.