“How many do you think know UEFI is an industry standard, documented and agreed to by the industry at large to address security issues like rootkits, and not just some contrivance Microsoft came up with to screw with their users?”
Get off it with the disinformation. Microsoft and Apple had overwhelming influence in the development of the Secure Boot functions in the UEFI standards:
UEFI By Forrest Stroud
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/uefi.html
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by Jon Brodkin - Feb 26, 2013 10:09am PST
Of course they did. Anybody with two synapses to rub together will expect that those two companies will have an overwhelming influence on industry standards because they collectively have an overwhelming influence on the industry.