It has been a long time since we heard word of MSI’s BIOS replacement, the Universal Extensible Firmware Interface or UEFI.  We finally have an update which you can read about over at Slashdot about what they have been doing over the past year and a half.  We did see a P45 motherboard from MSI with a click BIOS but we will finally be seeing a true implementation of UEFI on MSI Sandy Bridge motherboards which will be arriving sometime during the next six months.  Bring a graphical mouse driven interface to the BIOS seems like a big change but the change behind the scenes is even greater, for instance MSI is abandoning assembly code for C. 

“It’s the one major part of the computer that’s still reminiscent of the PC’s primordial, text-based beginnings, but the familiarly clunky BIOS could soon be on its deathbed, according to MSI. The motherboard maker says it’s now making a big shift towards point-and- click UEFI systems, and it’s all going to kick off at the end of this year. Speaking to Thinq, a spokesperson for the company in Taiwan who wished to remain anonymous said, ‘MSI will start to phase in UEFI starting from the end of this year, and we expect it will be widely adopted after three years.'”

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