Booting Windows 8: Too Fast To Interrupt - Page 2

cheesebeard- · 05-24-2012, 19:48 | posts: 3,402 | Location: New England - M@ss

Ohhh it boots so fast! So what. To me in the grand scheme of thing this is meh.

Aura89 · 05-24-2012, 20:22 | posts: 4,825 | Location: Washington State, USA

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Originally Posted by Chillin

If I understood them correctly, they take advantage of the features of the UEFI to make this possible.

again...that doesn't make any sense, unless the UEFI is set to a certain setting that motherboard manufacturers have made specifically for windows 8, that yet again you still have to set in the UEFI (or OS since windows 8 can control the UEFI to a degree i guess), then it doesn't affect it at all, and even then, it's the UEFI setting that makes it a fast boot, not windows

Clouseau · 05-24-2012, 20:48 | posts: 180

What everyone fails to realize is that Windows is marketed to the masses, not IT professionals or the tech savy. Look at where WFW 3.1 was and look at the GUI now. They are simplifying it to such a degree so as to atract the mentally impaired. Look even "???" can use it. Like the old addage: Make it idiot proof; a better idiot will come along.

It's all about connotation. BIOS is very scarry to some users. MS is trying to make the BIOS less intimidating. Actually I am looking forward to it. Buisness will increase from those who should not be fiddling with bios settings to start with.

deltatux · 05-24-2012, 23:49 | posts: 18,773 | Location: Toronto, Canada

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Originally Posted by Clouseau

It's all about connotation. BIOS is very scarry to some users. MS is trying to make the BIOS less intimidating. Actually I am looking forward to it. Buisness will increase from those who should not be fiddling with bios settings to start with.

How is Microsoft making the BIOS easier? BIOS hasn't been easier until UEFI was pushed on to x86. To be honest, if they really wanted to make people's life easier, people would have implemented it at the turn of the century when Intel first pushed it for Itanium systems back in the early 2000s, it shouldn't have taken 10 years for PC builders to get UEFI. Even Apple went with UEFI in 2006 before PC builders got it.

Also, it's Intel who made UEFI that made the motherboard firmware less scary for users. BIOS never really changed through its nearly 40 year lifespan when it first got out of IBM's labs back in the '70s. They've been essentially static since.

deltatux

Clouseau · 05-25-2012, 01:00 | posts: 180

Microsoft is not making the BIOS easier, less intimidating. It is a very daunting word to most. Just like in the video, having access to bios setting and not calling it bios settings is releiving some of the OH My God...Don't Touch That syndrom.

deltatux · 05-25-2012, 01:42 | posts: 18,773 | Location: Toronto, Canada

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Originally Posted by Clouseau

Microsoft is not making the BIOS easier, less intimidating. It is a very daunting word to most. Just like in the video, having access to bios setting and not calling it bios settings is releiving some of the OH My God...Don't Touch That syndrom.

What the video showed was an advanced boot options menu, it's basically a bootloader with a lot more options. It's not even an UEFI interface at all. BIOS has been phased out and with UEFI, it's a lot less intimidating than what it replaced, the BIOS.

deltatux