09.06.2010 19:35 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

MSI replacing BIOS with UEFI firmware interface sometime this year?

The United EFI Forum is a trade group that includes Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and ARM. The goal? To develop and implement UEFI (United Extensible Firmware Interface). The specification replaces BIOS as the software interface between your computer's hardware and OS, doing away with several limitations of the BIOS firmware interface in the process. Unlike the old, dependable BIOS, however, UEFI comes with a flashy-mouse driven interface; and instead of being written in assembly, it's written in C -- which might mean that it needs more resources, but it's also a lot more flexible. According to an article on THINQ.co.uk, MSI will introduce the spec on

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