Microsoft decides to give BIOS the "boot."

This afternoon, I decided to turn on the village's computer. Sounds simple enough, but as usual, the process of turning on (or "booting up") the computer takes what seems like a lifetime to complete. I pressed the power button, and after waiting for five minutes for everything to load up and get sorted out... I, !Xobile, had forgotten why I had wanted to use the computer in the first place! Why does this happen? Why does something as simple as turning on a computer take so long? Well, according to Microsoft, it isn't as simple as it's chalked up to be.

Apparently, for the last however many years we've been using PC's, despite the upgrades to RAM, Hard-drive Memory, Graphics Cards, and Processors, no one thought "Hey, why not fix the one thing EVERYONE has to do before using a computer?!" Finally, Microsoft smartened up and announced a new code to be used next year, called the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). This is supposed to cut boot times from 2 minutes (or more depending on your computer) down to 2 seconds! How is this possible? According to Microsoft, they royally screwed up in the very beginning of coding start-up, and haven't updated it sufficiently to account for newer technologies (USB peripherals), which caused an already ancient code to run even slower than usual. Hopefully, next year, when I turn on my new computer, it will boot up fast enough for me to remember what I wanted to do in the first place! Thanks Microsoft!

For you tech-savvy people, here's the full article: DailyTech