Spanish open source association Hispalinux has complained to the European Commission about the Windows 8 Secure Boot system. Windows 8 PCs required to support Secure Boot, which allows the firmware to be locked down so that only cryptographically signed boot-time software can run. Microsoft recently fined $1.50 for not giving them a carefully-randomised choice of browsers when they installed Windows 7 SP1.1 when they were given the choice of a new version of the web browser. The EC seems to have in for Microsoft recently, having recently fined Redmond $150 for every man, woman and child within the European Union.”]