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Microsoft pulls EFI support from Vista

post #1 of 6
3/10/06 at 10:38am
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http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl.../03/10/0526237

This sucks. I was considering getting a Mac eventually to dual boot OSX and Vista with... $10 says this isn't due to any technical limitation, but good old fashioned collusion to make each other's stuff incompatible so people will buy both... According to some of the posts in that thread, the EFI framwork is there in the latest Vista CTP, but now they're removing.
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post #2 of 6
3/10/06 at 11:42am
ah, who cares emulation will likely make it moot and make windows run pretty quick on it's own hardware. i don't know that windows even uses BIOS a great deal in it's workings. for example, i can disable all my drives in BIOS to make my boot sequence quicker and windows loads just fine. and, there a handful of settings in windows that are independent of BIOS as well. in sum, i'm not totally convinced that EFI will be needed for windows to run in OS X. booting, yes, may be another issue, but again w/ the hardware now being x86 native, it may make the idea of booting moot for all except the most demanding uses.
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post #3 of 6
3/10/06 at 3:53pm
Good, hate windows....
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post #4 of 6
3/17/06 at 1:29pm
The removal is EFI from Vista is a bummer, now I have heard that they have scaled back the use of .NET with each new beta release. Yet more features removed...

Wow, Vista really will be Windows XP service pack 3.

I am sticking to Mac OSX, event though I do have a windows laptop and a Mac.
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post #5 of 6
3/17/06 at 1:44pm
Oh well, you can still boot XP, and that is good enough for me.
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post #6 of 6
3/17/06 at 10:01pm
Two things.

The link is quoting the acpmag rumor article that is of dubious veracity. As of today MSDN still shows Vista as supporting EFI.

Second, .NET is an application platform. Vista has the .NET framework embedded and most of the ODS tools use it. So I have no idea what you mean by "scaling back" .NET.
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