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Installing Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 on UEFI Systems
White Paper Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 support Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) on Intel Itanium-based and x64-based platforms. This paper provides... [16 Sep 2009]
UEFI and Windows
White Paper This paper briefly describes support for the Unified Extended Firmware Interface (UEFI) in the Windows family of operating systems and includes a brief discussion of related technical issues. UEFI is the... [16 Sep 2009]
Processor Power Management in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
White Paper This paper provides details of the support in Windows Vista, describes how PPM works with Windows Vista power policy, provides guidelines for firmware... [16 Sep 2009]
BCDEdit Reference
White Paper BCD abstracts the underlying firmware and provides a common programming interface that can be used to manipulate the boot environment for all systems running Windows Vista or later... [16 Sep 2009]
Extended PSS ACPI Method Specification
White Paper The Extended PSS (XPSS) method is an ACPI method that allows platform firmware to generically describe a Model Specific Register (MSR)-based interface for processor performance state controls. The information in this... [03 Apr 2008]
ACPI Driver Interface in Windows Vista
White Paper These objects are loaded from the system definition in firmware into the ACPI namespace. This paper documents the mechanism for executing ACPI control methods and handling events from a kernel driver in the... [29 Mar 2008]
Vista SP1 'lacks wow factor', says Microsoft
News SP1 will support Extensible Firmware Interface, Intel standard for the interface between software, the operating system and firmware, and Extended File Allocation Table, a new Microsoft file system that... [04 Oct 2007]
Vista SP1 coming early next year
News Also being added are support for an emerging removable storage file format known as exFAT as well as for EFI (extensible firmware interface), an alternative to the Bios (basic input output system) that handles the... [30 Aug 2007]
Microsoft to issue fix for Zune glitch
News Microsoft is planning to issue a firmware update next month designed to fix a glitch that is causing some owners of its Zune music player to experience skipping when playing songs purchased from Microsoft's online store. [01 Mar 2007]
Apple: 'Don't expect Mactels to run Vista'
News Mac fans have held out considerable hope that the next version of Windows would be easier to load on Macs than Windows XP, because like Mac OS X, Vista will use Extensible... [10 Mar 2006]
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