okatomy wrote:
G75 has always UEFI Bios for example no matter if it shipped with Win 7 and Win 8

But those options are only visible to Laptops originally shipped with win 8.

rewben wrote:
@okatomy, such options only appear in laptops with w8 preloaded.

why do you need those bios options for? that's one funny way MS blocking average users to access other OS's in the name of security. it does nothing useful in the real world (unless, of course, the implementation allows all other OS's to be equally protected).

i have a w7-preinstalled laptop. i am glad it doesn't have these funny options.

Zygomorphic wrote:
@rewben, it only appears with Win 8 preloaded, because Win 8 is designed around EFI, whereas Windows 7 can handle it (but doesn't always like it).

Yes. Microsoft is blocking in the name of "security", but the security that they are referring to is their own profit margins. I for one would not run Windows if I am totally concerned about security, for a whole host of reasons. I don't know if any of you remember, but Microsoft originally wasn't going to allow SecureBoot to be disabled on x86. They backed down on this when Canonical (Ubuntu), Red Hat (Fedora), and several other companies threatened a lawsuit on anti-competition. Microsoft knew they would lose, so they backed off a bit.