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UEFI Formed to Replace BIOS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-i'll-believe-it-when-i-see-code dept.

anonymous cow-herd writes "Businesswire reports that several leading technology companies including Intel, AMD, Microsoft, IBM, Dell and HP and others have formed the Unified EFI Forum. The non-profit corporation will assume responsibility for the development and promotion of the EFI specification, a pre-boot interface originally developed by Intel that is intended to replace the aging PC BIOS."

2 of 422 comments (clear)

  1. Microsoft? by joschm0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Intel, AMD, Microsoft, IBM, Dell and HP

    Great! So now we'll get blue screens of death during bootup.

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    01/20/09
  2. Re:Cue CmdrTaco's OpenBoot Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You do know that you can get your adsense account yanked for pulling stunts like that, right?