Did you even read the links you point to? This comment is false. "Why doesn't Windows support it? It was just finished last summer, and there haven't been any Windows releases since"
If you read your own link or the link I provided to Intel's history you will see that that original 1.0 specification was published prior to the Spring of 2000. That is almost 6 years ago not "last summer". There have been continued refinements in EFI since, but Windows could have supported it in several major releases in the last 5 years including Windows XP, but they never did.
This will be fixed, and fast, mark my words. M$ is simply too greedy to allow it to remain otherwise.
Would this also then stop EFI-based Mac OS X from running on current non-EFI PCs?
Yes, I know the "standard" has been published since 2000, but it wasn't finalized until last summer. And while I'm not a big Microsoft fan, I don't blame them for not rewriting all their boot code for a standard that wasn't final yet. My guess is that they said, "Vista is soon enough" and called it a day.
Also, as others have pointed out, EFI has a BIOS-compatibility mode, which is the way that most systems boot nowadays. But my guess is that Apple didn't care about BIOS-compatibility, so they have no real reason to put it in.
We should know this week how big an issue the EFI one is, when people start getting their Intel iMacs. My bet is still that Windows won't boot out of the box.
Thanks for the great comments,
Carl
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