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Surface pro has a BIOS interface, it's just stupidly inaccessible. Their design also means that you can't easily install your own copy of windows and are instea

Surface pro has a BIOS interface, it's just stupidly inaccessible. Their design also means that you can't easily install your own copy of windows and are instead stuck pulling down their stupid recovery images whenever you want to format. I'm very annoyed that they decided to go this direction personally.

Spooky23 9y ago
They did that to protect the platform against stupid enterprises.
- Thriptic 9y ago
  What do you mean?
  - Spooky23 9y ago
    Office 365 taught them how much corporate testing and imaging hurt their products. In one case I’m familiar with, they were getting pummeled over poor O365 user experience in 2015 because the customer was refusing to upgrade past Office 2007. Everything they’ve done in the last 5 years is about pushing out software faster and making traditional enterprise IT too expensive.
    - exikyut 9y ago
      Suddenly the push behind cloud makes a lot more sense. Interesting to know.
    - Thriptic 9y ago
      This makes sense, thank you!
rgsteele 9y ago
>Surface pro has a BIOS interface, it's just stupidly inaccessible I think you misunderstand. Surface Pro supports only UEFI, not legacy BIOS. What you are referring to as a "BIOS interface" is in fact the UEFI firmware settings. If you're having issues accessing the settings, this article may be helpful: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4023531/surface-using-surface-uefi-on-surface-laptop--new-surface-pro--surface https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4023531/surface-usi... I'm not sure what you mean by "install your own copy of windows" but you can certainly boot from USB by following the instructions here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4023511 https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4023511