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Story: Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS

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Posted by: Anonymous (Saturday 4 October 2003, 1:32 AM)

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The anti-MS sentiments here are pathetic... Microsoft is a business, they make decisions and deals in an attempt to boost market share and profit. All companies do it. As someone else here said, Apple have been doing it for decades - in fact they don't only tie you to a BIOS, but to the hardware and software. Isn't anyone going to moan about them too?

It's fairly obvious other BIOS's are available. If you don't want to use Phoenix, don't. Use something else. Buy a different mobo. Stop using your PC altogether. Whatever - you DO have options, so there is no logical reason to shoot down Microsoft for a business decision they have made.

(FYI, posted on a Mac, I just give credit where credit is due, and Microsoft often isn't given that credit when due.)

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Story: Microsoft moves to integrate Windows with BIOS

  1. Bull. To put it mildly. Anyone with half a brain (... Jeff Partridge
  2. Microsoft's plan to integrate the operating system... Phil A
  3. OH, GREAT. Soon we'll have viruses infecting not o... Anonymous
  4. Can't they keep their hands off of anything? I've... Jeff A.
  5. Ok..it takes A LOT to scare me. This scares me. Dan
  6. They are trying to rule the wold but will fail. Mo... Anonymous
  7. Gatezooks Batman! Can Bill be stealing another App... Michel Levesque
  8. Phoenix is only one of the many global organsation... Adebayo Omo-Dare
  9. An attempt to squelch Linux? Hm... They're not s... Laura
  10. just boycot any mobo with that bios.. that takes... joeldg
  11. TO ALL WHO ARGUE THAT WE HAVE A CHOICE: Yes,... Anonymous
  12. This article is about to get posted on slashdot, h... Anonymous
  13. "The BIOS would also allow better control of unaut... Jim Storch
  14. Wow, that's the last Phoenix bios I buy, shame too... edfardos
  15. Good news! Microsoft is trying to take over yet a... Anonymous
  16. As Michel Levesque said, Apple has been doing this... John Thurlow
  17. someone need to shurdown Microsoft. I hope some gr... Anonymous
  18. The anti-MS sentiments here are pathetic... Micros... Anonymous
  19. I flat out refuse to buy a motherboard with a Wind... Sean Darrenkamp
  20. Uhhhh ....it´s gonna be messy I´d guess . I very m... Winston Graeme
  21. might want to spell authorized as authorized and n... Anonymous
  22. This is ZDNet.co.uk. In the UK authorized is spelt... Anonymous
  23. Thats opening the door to windows virus that will... blackcomb
  24. Re: What Apple does When Microsoft startes making... Anonymous
  25. First SCO kernel lawsuits... now this? What's nex... Gill Bates
  26. Provided versions of the BIOS are made available w... Anonymous
  27. If people can get around all the MS-Specific stuff... Jerry Leik
  28. I beg your pardon, but doesn't this run afoul of t... Anonymous
  29. And I thought the only advantage DOS had over CP/M... Mark Harvey
  30. R.E: Matthew Broersma You make it sound like Micro... Anonymous
  31. We are borg; you are fud. Our daily mantra here at... LinuxIsOverRated
  32. I do not like this one bit at all. Microsoft is be... Matt S.
  33. I believe, Microsoft will not be able to do such a... Nitrocloud
  34. I would just like to know if when Microsoft says t... Eric Damron
  35. Time to develop an open-source hardware platform t... g salter
  36. Oh.. right.. so another bribe underway. Whats next... Gunblade
  37. This stinks. What about the settlement reach rega... Anonymous
  38. This is the most selfish thing I heard since I fo... Kris mason
  39. It's not complicated that problem its what we call... Michel Plante
  40. The Apple model is actually different. They provi... Anonymous
  41. *sniff sniff* I smell IBM and MCA here..wonder if... Doug Mayfield
  42. What Microsoft and Phoenix are doing is very simil... Ezra
  43. I say let them do it!!!! i PESONALLY don't ca... joelol75
  44. Just because you're lazy... mutagenesis@gmail.com
  45. Also, Open Source... mutagenesis@gmail.com
  46. Oh fuck. That thing sucks. Windows was OK for me b... Fast Finn
  47. Firstly, If Microsoft were an actual monopoly like... John McKenzie
  48. The Roman Empire fell, the supposed Third Rei... Anonymous
  49. The Roman Empire fell, the supposed Third Rei... Anonymous
  50. You morons act like you don't have a choice. Even... UrbanRiot
  51. Yes, but... mutagenesis@gmail.com
  52. This *cannot* be allowed to happen. It constitute... ajs318
  53. The only difference I see between Apple doing this... Perry Nichols
  54. I think Robin Williams said it best on an HBO stan... Nick Balatoni
  55. I should also add that my other statement really w... Nick Balatoni
  56. The difference being that the software and the har... Facade
  57. I think Windows in the BIOS is a great idea. Work... Majik Fox
  58. I wish Windows would migrate to a diode and stay t... Anonymous
  59. Well... BIOS patch every day and 6 Service Packs p... Anonymous
  60. I can see another action against M$. I custom bu... Nigel
  61. The real goal should be to eliminate DRIVERS. Mos... john
  62. Just proves microsoft wants complete control of ev... Anonymous
  63. Isn't this close integration of software and hardw... Anonymous
  64. Erm, that's a very, very bad idea. Remember CIH? W... IgGy
  65. Microsoft say this will make computers more reliab... Leonard Gore
  66. This is so great! I'm really thrilled about this M... Adam Sindelar
  67. Well, I think that I quite simply will turn over... Anonymous
  68. Will be the last phonix bios for me to unless, the... Kenneth
  69. Yeah, why should they try just to hang the parts o... Anonymous
  70. BeOS users on the Mac already know what "killing o... Rodrigo de Arcayne
  71. Microsoft is an insidious parasite that refuses to... Anonymous
  72. All this, not to mention that "integrate"-d code c... Anonymous
  73. Someone said that we should lay off Microsoft beca... Linux User
  74. I think MS allready lost its anti trust law suit. Anonymous
  75. Soon I wont be able to take a dump without MS know... Clay S
  76. Well hmm i think it would be stupid for Windows an... JoshsMac
  77. As Michel Levesque said, Apple has been doing this... b0lt
  78. [quote]The anti-MS sentiments here are pathetic...... Arden
  79. One folk, one country, one operating system? Nisse Konkas
  80. One of the reasons I use a PC as opposed to a Mac... Anonymous
  81. Microsoft with the help of DRM and palladium will... Anonymous
  82. thinks.....OS controls BIOS, OS controls software,... Nick Darley-Jones
  83. good move microsoft ,people how don't like it ,wil... Olivier Rallon
  84. I think it is atrocious that Microsoft wants to co... Steven Thompson
  85. Monopoly anyone? Alienate such a group of users as... Anonymous
  86. OK, so we can put an OS on a motherboard chip with... Anonymous
  87. They're going to have to make this a bloody good O... Charles
  88. Like any smart consumer, I think this is a step in... Bob Lablah
  89. Where does this place Intel's Vanderpool? (Multi-O... Chiral
  90. Microsoft's tentacles are not and never will be wi... Anonymous
  91. I really do not think that most people will not go... David Ross
  92. Crime'o'soft still tryin' to control the world...... Dam - France
  93. There's a first. Microsoft and security spoken in... Munch
  94. This is a BAD IDEA I hav mi own idea. It is not fi... http://zzo38computer.cjb.net/
  95. I have just come out of a situation where, if the... Anonymous
  96. One more time, Micro$oft shows us his voluntee for... Morithil Gaeldîr
  97. What is the alternative , if this happens, someone... willy willcome
  98. are particular BIOS developer tied to specific mob... Anonymous
  99. Our lovely friends at Microsoftİ have decided to t... Phlux
  100. I'm just disgusted. David Ammouial
  101. Thats f*ck'n computer communism! Nick Anderson
  102. I remember that Kro$oft cried out about GNU/Linux... yaen pujol
  103. I can see it now. A Microsoft website devoted to... Anonymous
  104. What would you like to see in the future MIcrosoft... Anonymous
  105. I would like to see a small penguin prominent... mustals
  106. hmhmhm, If you have been in the industry as long... Dave
  107. In the good ole times of the Sinclair SPECTRUM (tm... Dragos Dinescu
  108. You've got to be kidding! Let's open a new can of... Mr BOB
  109. just who does bill gates think he is?. an arr... Anonymous
  110. bios v1.3.............blue screen of death Anonymous
  111. Hands off the hardware, Gates, or I go Linux passerby
  112. My worries are that when computers are sold with t... Richard Dean

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