"We will continue to support the legacy BIOS interface, but machines using the UEFI interface will have significantly richer capabilities." == Will not block L

"We will continue to support the legacy BIOS interface, but machines using the UEFI interface will have significantly richer capabilities." == Will not block Linux or any other OS booting. Secondly anti-trust cases would kill MS if they would block any other OS, so they won't. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/20/reengineering-the-windows-boot-experience.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/20/reengineering-...