[THE UNDISPUTED TRUTH]

Will it be possible to have a multi-boot setup (e.g. Win-8/Ubuntu Linux) or does the new secure boot bios system rule that out?

[Orbiter]

I've had a chance to familiarize myself with a fully licensed copy of Windows 8 Pro. Hugely disappointed with its radically overhauled yet frustratingly kludgy GUI. Disclosure: I've been in the IT field since 1978 and cut my PC teeth on the original Windows 3.1 back in the ‘80’s.