Acronym Soup: What is BDS?

Acronym Soup: What is BDS?

In today’s “Acronym Soup” blog post, we are back on the BIOS side of things with this question: what is BDS? First, for the answer – which many might have already guessed since it has to do with BIOS: BDS is short for Boot Device Selection. Of...
Why Use UEFI Instead of Other Boot Loaders?

Why Use UEFI Instead of Other Boot Loaders?

Before Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), there was legacy BIOS. You may hear us throwing around the term “legacy BIOS” all the time. Although sometimes we use BIOS and UEFI interchangeably (or sometimes at the same time), the actual term we...