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Concerns? Absolutely
Heck, I don't even trust the OS I'm running at work. I'm all for some open source replacement.

""Realistically we're using a BIOS that consists of patches upon patches and extensions that go back to 1982. Something needed to be done to clean things up and to add functionality," said Dean McCarron, analyst with Mercury Research."

What's the matter with that? A lot of us are running an operating system (Windows XP) that consists of patches upon patches and extensions that go back to 1994.
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What are the other companies alternate solutions  FilledOut | 12/30/03
Hmmmmmm  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
Just say NO to DRM BIOS!  InetUser_z | 01/05/04
MS and replacing BIOS? I smell disaster.  toomuchgreeatea@... | 12/30/03
MS and replacing BIOS? I smell disaster.  hal9000mx | 12/30/03
Re: I need to get ready to move to the Mac World  Salman Pak | 12/31/03
Yeah, like there's no monopoly to deal with in the Mac World.  hal9000mx | 01/01/04
MS and replacing BIOS? I smell disaster.  ajapierce | 12/30/03
Can You Say DRM??? Paladium???  swbobcat | 12/30/03
Just say NO to DRM  InetUser_z | 01/05/04
Concerns? Absolutely!  ONEstar | 12/30/03
Concerns? Absolutely  issthatso | 12/30/03
Yup!  Martin Marvinski | 12/30/03
"A blackhole...  MalumRegnat | 12/30/03
How come ZD isn't covering ISRAEL DUMPING M$ OS and Office?!?, huh?  dicktaurus@... | 12/31/03
How come ZD isn't covering ISRAEL DUMPING M$ OS and Office?!?, huh?  hal9000mx | 01/01/04
Heh, that's why I posted: a small reminder as to who's zoomin' who here!  dicktaurus@... | 01/01/04
Current URLs - 1-5-04 2PM CST  Update victim | 01/05/04
Putting the cart before the horse  Unicornrider | 01/05/04
Come on LinuxBIOS  Chad_z | 12/30/03
Yep  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
Few of us  FirstNLastN | 12/30/03
Seriously a BIOS is tough to code. Aren't they still written in assembler?  hal9000mx | 01/01/04
Microsoft writing BIOS  dpayne@... | 12/30/03
Want to lose money?  vdraken | 12/30/03
sure, it's only money!  dpayne@... | 12/30/03
Well if you want to live in a closet..  vdraken | 12/30/03
...then you'd suspect nothing like you are doing  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
Hey, you KNOW he has to be retarded or evil to kiss MonkeyBoy's arse like..  dicktaurus@... | 12/30/03
Being cautious...  BitTwiddler | 12/30/03
RE: sure, it's only money  ajapierce | 12/30/03
Hmm....  jobroco | 12/30/03
Doesant matter.  vdraken | 12/30/03
ok  jobroco | 12/30/03
You don't think..  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
M$'s XML was tainted, butthead!  dicktaurus@... | 12/30/03
Think again  AbsolutelyNot | 12/30/03
thinking  Suicida| | 12/31/03
MS 'XML' is a proprietary perversion of the standards  Rick S._z | 12/30/03
Simply not true.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/04
RE: Hmm...  ajapierce | 12/30/03
Yes...  BitTwiddler | 12/30/03
MS doesnt maintain the EFI standard. Only promoting.  hal9000mx | 01/01/04
I'll bet a gazillion dollars  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
Something is not right  plandy@... | 12/30/03
Linsux is used by no one on the desktop  guitar player | 12/30/03
Sure...  NemesisNL | 12/30/03
Keep strumming the air dude  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
Re: Linsux is used by no one on the desktop  Martin Marvinski | 12/30/03
Didn't China Go Linux on ton of desktops  voska | 12/30/03
The Problem is  ShadeTree | 12/30/03
Re: The Problem is  Martin Marvinski | 12/31/03
Read the post prior to mine.  ShadeTree | 12/31/03
China bought one and installed it on all those desktops.  hal9000mx | 01/01/04
40,000 desktops at Ford Europe  B.O.F.H. | 12/30/03
I'd have agreed with you 5 years ago  voska | 12/30/03
Ever hear of Burlington Industries?  Update victim | 12/30/03
Windows strenght in numbers?  lesk | 12/31/03
OS's for dummies  Suicida| | 01/01/04
There are more cockroaches on earth than people  hal9000mx | 01/01/04
No mention of "trusted computing"  FlyGuy70 | 12/30/03
That because EVERYONE trusts them already silly  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
Where's the TRUST  JWatson77 | 12/30/03
EFI was used in Itanium  Mike Cox | 12/30/03
Wait....  slopoke | 12/30/03
It must be the holidays  AbsolutelyNot | 12/30/03
Present?  Martin Marvinski | 12/30/03
Probably just forgot which signon he was using happy  WhoIsDaMan | 12/30/03
Go Mikey!  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/30/03
Identity theft  Mike Cox | 12/30/03
Puching Back Won't Work!!  ShadeTree | 12/30/03
EFI is good an will be highly successful  George Mitchell | 12/30/03
It's not the EFI that's the problem  AbsolutelyNot | 12/30/03
Wait a minute ... are you for open? or do you favor closed?  George Mitchell | 12/30/03
Your naivete' in the face of M$ malevolence is charming, but. 20 years...  dicktaurus@... | 01/02/04
And you, sir, are beating a dead horse!  George Mitchell | 01/02/04
EFI isn't simplifying  Nigel Johnstone | 12/30/03
Technically incorrect!  ShadeTree | 12/30/03
Technically incorrect!...but then again  Nigel Johnstone | 12/30/03
Initialize memory and hard drive?  Update victim | 12/30/03
You could put linux on it  Nigel Johnstone | 12/30/03
It is in Linux  Suicida| | 12/31/03
This is not about simplicity v complexity ...  George Mitchell | 12/30/03
There's nothing wrong with the BIOS  BitTwiddler | 12/30/03
Really?  George Mitchell | 12/30/03
oh really  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
WinBIOS?  George Mitchell | 12/31/03
the fact is  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
The fact is you are uneducated  Suicida| | 01/01/04
?  Martin Marvinski | 12/30/03
Most problems traced to BIOS  ShadeTree | 12/30/03
Most problems traced to BIOS  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
Intelligent post  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 12/30/03
I recognize revolutionary technology when I see it ...  George Mitchell | 12/30/03
knee jerk?  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
Defending our freedom ...  George Mitchell | 12/31/03
You're on a roll...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 12/31/03
The MS stock price tells the story John  George Mitchell | 12/31/03
DRM is fine  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
Spyware doesn't require DRM  George Mitchell | 12/31/03
Microsoft One Day's Schedule  hal9000mx | 01/01/04
Freudian slip there John?  Aphelion | 12/31/03
Wow, already broken down into name calling  FilledOut | 12/30/03
What else?  pschroeder@... | 12/30/03
we all know what smells  JWatson77 | 12/30/03
and hopefully  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
I can't be the only one...  BitTwiddler | 12/30/03
the startup is only a small part of what they want to control  JWatson77 | 12/30/03
really?  Suicida| | 01/01/04
It is about time!!!  ShadeTree | 12/30/03
Who do you trust?  plandy@... | 12/30/03
You have that Choice!  ShadeTree | 12/30/03
Opt out or decline?  plandy@... | 12/30/03
Like it or Not.  ShadeTree | 12/30/03
Submit to force feeding?  plandy@... | 12/30/03
A bit naive.  ShadeTree | 12/30/03
(NT) Yikes! You sound a bit like Bit! Happy New Year anyway :o)  Jack-Booted EULA | 12/31/03
Just a realist.  ShadeTree | 12/31/03
BUT...  JWatson77 | 12/30/03
Not Microsoft driving..  ShadeTree | 12/31/03
Nope  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
Opt Out? Yeah, maybe now...  Rekrul | 12/31/03
No evidence of this  ShadeTree | 12/31/03
manditory?  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
Hidden Agenda by Microsoft  RobertoSalazar | 12/30/03
extend and break  JWatson77 | 12/30/03
Why does Microsuck's use the word "innovation"  realitycheck101 | 12/30/03
MS Cannot Be Trusted With BIOS  brenthawkinsmd | 12/30/03
ACPI turned the keys over to the OS  ShadeTree | 12/30/03
Poo Poo  jnonneman | 12/30/03
I SMELL DRM  JWatson77 | 12/30/03
MS can't get its own software to work properly  data-ware@... | 12/30/03
DRM doesn't work  JWatson77 | 12/30/03
Off Track  ShadeTree | 12/31/03
Re : Off Track  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
Both can be accomplished with the current BIOS  hal9000mx | 01/01/04
(NT) Neither did Windows 1.0  Update victim | 01/02/04
re :BIOS biography enters final chapter  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
Whatever  ParadigmOdyssey | 12/31/03
didn't ibm do this once  JWatson77 | 12/31/03
Shortage of assembler engineers?!!  Eggs Ackley_z | 12/31/03
The future...  Rekrul | 12/31/03
Microsoft and low level hardware control = DISASTER  zin_gerr@... | 12/31/03
Where does it say MSBIOS?  Suicida| | 12/31/03
Do you even run linux ?  zin_gerr@... | 12/31/03
Well, he obviously doesn't run Debian  George Mitchell | 12/31/03
DOS was pretty stable  Suicida| | 01/01/04
and yes I run gentoo  Suicida| | 01/01/04
Hobbyists != System Administrators  Knorthern Knight | 01/01/04
Win-modems; then Win-printers; Is Win-BIOS next?  Knorthern Knight | 12/31/03
Im sure he would  Suicida| | 12/31/03
Hey Bill Gates! Eat your heart out man!  George Mitchell | 12/31/03
MS looking to expand, even to hardware  FilledOut | 01/01/04
Proprietary products are self limiting ...  George Mitchell | 01/01/04
Open solutions are changing many markets  FilledOut | 01/01/04
As long as you bribe them.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/04
MS has a lot more power than IBM  Knorthern Knight | 01/01/04
Old news  rapson | 01/02/04
In your mind dude ...  George Mitchell | 01/02/04
IBM is *NOT* a software-only company  Knorthern Knight | 01/01/04
I apologize for seemingly limiting IBM's scope  FilledOut | 01/02/04
True, they are a Linux bribery machine.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/04/04
Did ya read the whole story  Squawkbox | 01/04/04
Microsoft has just recognised the benefit and wishes to join the game.  hal9000mx | 01/01/04
They must be plotting something evil ...  George Mitchell | 01/01/04
My, what a collection of posts.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/01/04
It gets pretty insane ...  George Mitchell | 01/01/04
Sadly, you are right...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/01/04
Watch what happens next.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/01/04
I'm back and you and I agree buhwahaahaha  Squawkbox | 01/02/04
Rewritting history???  Don Senzig | 01/01/04
Lets do them one better  supoman | 01/02/04
Been done, Remember Commodore.  Update victim | 01/02/04
who do you think bill wanted to win, when he read 1984  JWatson77 | 01/03/04
End of BIOS and your choice  msdead | 01/05/04

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