--- title: He Who Controls the Bootloader | daily.dev description: Palm has purchased Be, but it is unclear what they plan to do with the technology. Microsoft's dominance in the commercial desktop OS market has made it nearly... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/he-who-controls-the-bootloader-ck8qfy3gf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: He Who Controls the Bootloader | daily.dev og:description: Palm has purchased Be, but it is unclear what they plan to do with the technology. Microsoft's dominance in the commercial desktop OS market has made it nearly... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/he-who-controls-the-bootloader-ck8qfy3gf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cK8QFY3GF.png og:image:alt: He Who Controls the Bootloader og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # He Who Controls the Bootloader **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 11 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Palm has purchased Be, but it is unclear what they plan to do with the technology. Microsoft's dominance in the commercial desktop OS market has made it nearly impossible for any other OS to succeed. There are no commercially available dual-boot Win/Linux machines due to the terms of the Windows License agreement. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#bootloader](https://daily.dev/tags/bootloader), [#microsoft](https://daily.dev/tags/microsoft), [#palm](https://daily.dev/tags/palm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/he-who-controls-the-bootloader-ck8qfy3gf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"He Who Controls the Bootloader","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/he-who-controls-the-bootloader-ck8qfy3gf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/he-who-controls-the-bootloader-ck8qfy3gf"},"datePublished":"2024-03-03T12:30:01.081Z","dateModified":"2026-06-25T02:12:28.473Z","description":"Palm has purchased Be, but it is unclear what they plan to do with the technology. Microsoft's dominance in the commercial desktop OS market has made it nearly...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VDukGCjf--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2002","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VDukGCjf--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2002","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lobsters","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lobsters","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--tl8v_Fku--/f_auto,t_logo/v1698841318/logos/lobste.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/he-who-controls-the-bootloader-ck8qfy3gf","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"bootloader,microsoft,palm","timeRequired":"PT11M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lobsters","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"He Who Controls the Bootloader"}]} ```