Another Roadblock in Dual-Booting Mac OS X & Vista
Those hoping to be able to dual-boot the Intel Macs once Microsoft ships Vista (late this year?) may have to wait a bit longer. Today, Dan Warne of APC Magazine reported that Microsoft has announced that the first version of Vista will not have support for computers that use EFI firmware and that Microsoft may include EFI support at a later date for Vista.
Why on earth would Microsoft do this? I suppose it could be for technical reasons that we're not aware of, but I don't see why Microsoft couldn't just ship Vista without BIOS support instead, and anyone who wanted to upgrade to Vista would just have to buy a new PC, which is what most people will be doing anyway. Why willingly block machines with EFI to run Vista? But I suppose it might be that Microsoft is afraid to let users see Mac OS X and Vista side-by-side on the same computer.
It's quite clear EFI is the future and BIOS is the past. Apple is embracing one while Microsoft seems chained to the other.
