still a few glitches in the system...
still a few glitches in the system...
Posted Nov 20, 2012 22:39 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: still a few glitches in the system... by Cyberax
Parent article: Bottomley: Adventures in Microsoft UEFI Signing
I think you are overthinking things here. Microsoft uses CAB because CAB was designed for such use from the beginning.
The only question which can ever be asked is: why have not Microsoft switched to some other non-proprietary format and if you frame the question like this then the answer is self-obvious, isn't it?