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Titolo: Clamoroso: Vista non supporterà EFI!!!!

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Microsoft bombshell: no EFI support for Vista
venerdì 10, marzo 2006 | By Dan Warne
From: Epinions > Hardware
Microsoft revealed today that it will not support EFI booting for 
Windows Vista on its launch. The news will be a shock for owners of 
Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot between Windows 
Vista and OS X. Intel Macs only support booting via EFI.
Speaking at Intel Developer Forum San Francisco, Microsoft development 
manager, Andrew Ritz, also revealed that there will never be any support 
for booting Windows via EFI on systems with 32-bit processors.
Although Microsoft has previously said EFI booting would be supported by 
Vista, Ritz admitted that EFI support won't be seen in any version of 
Windows until the release of Longhorn Server.
It will not be available in the release version of Windows Vista later 
this year - Microsoft says people will have to wait for an unspecified 
'subsequent release of Windows client'. Ritz could not say whether that 
would be a service pack update to Vista or the next-generation of 
Windows.
Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is the modern and flexible successor 
to the 20-year-old PC BIOS. It is responsible for initialising hardware 
in the PC, and importantly, device drivers are stored in the EFI flash 
memory rather than being loaded by the operating system. It is a major 
change for the PC industry and both PC makers and Microsoft have been 
slow to make the switch. Because the Apple Intel Mac platform is 
entirely new, it does not have any legacy support concerns. It was hoped 
that 2006 would be the year PC makers would make the switch. Microsoft's 
lack of Windows support is a huge blow to Intel's hopes, and removes 
most of the incentive for PC makers to implement it in the short term.
That's terrible news for Intel Mac users who have been hoping that they 
could dual-boot Windows and Mac OS X on their new Macs: not only are 
their processors not 64-bit (and thus will never be supported by Windows 
EFI booting) but Windows Vista won't boot on EFI anyway.
It said its decision to 'reprioritise' EFI development to the server 
version of Windows was based on a lack of available desktop PCs with EFI 
support on the market.
"A combination of factors changed our plans. The big one, in my opinion 
was platform availability. With this huge move to 64-bit based platforms 
and for us to support it, we needed to see a large heterogeneous sample 
of 64 bit implementations out there for us to feel comfortable in 
supporting it." said Ritz.
LISTEN TO THE WHOLE SESSION: Here's an unedited recording of Microsoft's 
revelations about Vista at IDF. (21.6MB, MP3)
Dan Warne is in San Francisco as a guest of Intel, and will be reporting 
on developments at the Intel Developer Forum throughout the week.
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Stupisce tanto sta cosa? stanno cercando in tutti i modi di farci
cambiare il vecchio hardware x comprane di nuovo compatibile con
palladium.
E' una bastardata, ma decisamente non č inaspettata.

 E' una bastardata, ma decisamente non è inaspettata.
Temo Tu non abbia capito di cosa si sta parlando
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Temo Tu non abbia capito di cosa si sta parlando
In questo caso, spiegami di cosa si tratta

 In questo caso, spiegami di cosa si tratta
Del sostituto del bios
http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/
http://www.uefi.org/
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http://www.uefi.org/
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 Palldium č morto e sepolto, ...
Se č morto e sepolto ....il "cadavere" č ancora caldo....
almeno stando alle notizie del 16-02-2006
http://www.zeusnews.it/index.php3?ar=stampa&cod=4636&numero=907
altre fonti d'informazione piu' recenti ?
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