Microsoft has a deal with phoenix/award bios to integreate it with windows...

[Tomas]

Say hello to the windows only x86!!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/03/2127213&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=137&tid=187
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,39116902,00.htm

So now they wont even allow us to run other OSes than their own.

This makes microsoft look even better dosent it?

[Tomas]

maybe it is a good thing for amigaone/pegasos though...

[mikeymike]

I doubt it will lead to Windows only x86.  I think the most it will lead to is Windows support for BIOS setting changing, which, if done in the usual Microsoft style, will lead to even more viruses packed with the latest features.  Like zapping the BIOS.

The other possibility is that it's for Palladium, if that ever comes to fruition.

[Hooligan_DCS]

Hmm.. there is one thing in common with Amiga Inc. and Microsoft.. all news about them tend to be bad :-)

[lempkee]

i normally ignore pc news but this is really good news! , now lets hope it just dies  .. so we can guide all over to the amiga oriented market

[amigamad]

This is so you get a blue screen of death before the windows starts to boot up. :-D

[KennyR]

On the bright side, if Microsoft manage to get x86 PCs to be Windows only via Palladium or playing around with the bios, PPC suddenly becomes a lot more palatable.

[cecilia]

KennyR wrote:
On the bright side, if Microsoft manage to get x86 PCs to be Windows only via Palladium or playing around with the bios, PPC suddenly becomes a lot more palatable.

when was PPC ever NOT palatable???
Certainly running MorphOS it's GREAT!

actually it sounds like Microsoft is cutting off it's nose to spit it's face. but then, it's got a really UGLY face!
:lol:

[KennyR]

I don't mean for sensible people, cecilia, just all the clockspeed addicts.

[cecilia]

ah, that explains it: it tend to ignore people who are not  sensible! :-D

[Markus_Bieler]

amigamad wrote:
This is so you get a blue screen of death before the windows starts to boot up. :-D

So you will get every week a security patch update of 2MB for the bios

[WarPiper]

if this is really going to happen I will no longer buy motherboards with a phoenix bios's or any other bios that latches to the microsoft operating systems in any way or for any purpose what so ever.

[DickFitswell]

you are just ignorant, you will succumb to william gates, like it or not. GET OVER IT. Stop whining about how your not gonna do this, or not gonna do that. Microsoft is here to stay, and so deeply imbedded in our daily lives, we will have no other choices. And if we do have other choices, they will be inferior to the microsoft options.

now sit down, good boy. :-o

[n-ary]

"The relationship, announced this week, is designed to make PCs simpler and more reliable, the companies said"

Heard this before..

[iamaboringperson]

Ahh that's a scary story man!