Uncork the bubbly, boot up the computer, and usher in the new era in an appropriately futuristic way -- on the Internet.

CNN: New Year's Eve on the Net

The Hispalinux group told Reuters The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot in Windows 8 was "a de facto technological jail for computer booting systems... making Microsoft's Windows platform less neutral than ever".

BBC: Microsoft faces European open software probe