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Thought and Outlook

UEFI offers a whole lot of new possibilities. Put into words easily UEFI is like a small operating system which is located between your computers hardware and the operating system. UEFI is able to communitcate with USB peripherals and it can host much more drives simpley because it's not as limited as the old BIOS was. In future it could be possible that manufacturers like MSI, Gigabyte or ASUS implement small app that can even communicate with the outside world. Another thing that would be quite feasable is a browser that is integrated in the Firmware interface.

Even Windows 8 will use a lot of the funcionts UEFI has to offer. In this context a new "Deep-Sleep-Mode" is planned. The advantage is that the computer is in a sleep like state where it takes only a few seconds to wake it up but still it does not need significantly more power than it does when it's been shut down completely.

What is very important for the entire computer industry too is, that they can get rid of some barriers which made it difficult for unexperienced end users to understand what's actuall going on in a BIOS. They first had to read manuals or google for hours until they knew what they can manipulate and what they should leave untouched. UEFI makes things like this much easier beacause there now exists a possibility to arrange things graphically which in the end makes stuff easier to understand when it's done right.
We can be very curious what the future will bring and it is for sure that UEFI is one of the improvements we'd have to wait for more than a decade.

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