Microsoft Taking Over the BIOS 989
dtjohnson writes "According to this story,
Microsoft has entered into an agreement with BIOS maker Phoenix
Technologies to integrate the BIOS with Windows. This has the
potential to turn PCs into Windows-only machines and also could result
in widespread incorporation of Digital Rights Management (DRM)
technology into new PCs. It looks like Microsoft is beginning to
flex their marketplace monopoly muscles again, after taking a couple of
years off."
bleh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well (Score:4, Funny)
I, for one, welcome the day when people realize that joke just isn't funny anymore.
All your overload joke are belong to us!
BIOS has a new meaning? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If Apple does this, it is good (Score:2, Funny)
Plus of course, MS is exceptionally bad at writing good software. It's buggy, it's not secure, the user interface is godawful. Apple sometimes has problems with this, and it's gotten worse since Steve came back, but they at least have a better reputation in this respect.
And MS is considerably more evil than Apple apparently.
Just wen you thought only the os was safe. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Could you explain? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sun shows propritary hardware doomed to fail (Score:2, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thank goodness for LinuxBIOS (Score:4, Funny)
Right, because we all know that no one uses Windows.
Re:Well (Score:3, Funny)
I should start charging $699 everytime somebody uses my name . . .
So M$ wants world domination (Score:2, Funny)
The BORG are coming! (Score:3, Funny)
Your BIOS will be assimilated. Resistance is futile!
Next Microsoft will be selling cube shaped PCs with eerie green lights illuminating it. We must stop the collective from growing.
Re:Thank goodness for LinuxBIOS (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I think this is outstanding. (Score:2, Funny)
I, for one, would like to welcome our new compression overlords. =D
Don't be silly... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:BIOS has a new meaning? (Score:5, Funny)
Bill's Insecure Operating System
Re:JUST in the sake of fairness... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, that Dahmer character has invited us over for dinner.
I know, I know. But that doesn't mean he's going to eat us.
This time could be different.
KFG
So was HAL a Microsoft product? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:JUST in the sake of fairness... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, and they wouldn't be paying for the initial treatments out of the goodness of their hearts, but treatment would be funded by vouchers given to victims in prior settlments of court cases against MS.
Re:DRM will be optional. (Score:5, Funny)
That's one small elephant!
This just in... (Score:2, Funny)
End of Line.
Re:Thank goodness for LinuxBIOS (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, but they'll be back (rising from the ashes and all that).
Open Firmware Song! (Score:3, Funny)
Open Firmware Song [sun.com]
Re:Who do I blame for all this crap? (Score:5, Funny)
Ladies and gentlemen, the revolution has begun.
Re:Thank goodness for LinuxBIOS (Score:2, Funny)
wtf? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Thank goodness for LinuxBIOS (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Thank goodness for LinuxBIOS (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, you're really winning the argument if you are using the award winning strategy of saying your opponent is having sex with Bill Gates.
I'm surprise Linus lets you talk with your mouth full.
Windows BIOS = BIOS Viruses (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who do I blame for all this crap? (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot Nostalgia Page (Score:3, Funny)
All the Beowulfed clustered Natalie Portman hot grits belong to Signal 11.
Okay, moderators, do your duty. This is all off-topic.
Ever have nostalgia for the old Slashdot? Here you are:
What do training bras teach?
War is God's way of teaching George Bush to find Iraq on the map.
50% of everything is below average.
The Thesaurus was prehistoric reptile with a great vocabulary.
How do they get Teflon to stick to the pans?
How do you know if you run out of invisible ink?
The cost of living is high, but it remains popular.
"Why does everyone always overgeneralize?"
Any attempt to brew coffee with a USB teapot should result in the error code "418: I'm a teapot".
Ethernet - A device for catching the Ether Bunny.
Why do hippies like Oregon? Because there are no jobs.
I'd like to back up my hard drive, but I don't know how to put it into reverse.
Flying Rule #1: Keep the pointy end forward.
The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
I've lost my faith in nihilism.
"Ah yes, the Tomahawk Cruise missle... the rich country's car bomb."
I'm in search of myself. If you find me before I arrive, please have me wait.
If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
AAATMA - American Association Against Too Many Acronyms
The metric system is the tool of the devil!! i get forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way i likes it!!
Moderating trolls and flames as "Offtopic" is Unfair and will be metamoderated as such.
It all started when I thought that inflammable was the opposite of flammable...
If you are angry with someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.
Re:Soon they'll come to a decision.... (Score:1, Funny)
Only on Slashdot will two pages linking Microsoft discounts on their operating system to civil war initiated by sheep be deemed on-topic and modded up.