Is windows7's update BOOTMGR designed for waging MBR wars?

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Is windows7's update BOOTMGR designed for waging MBR wars?

Postby sabayonlinux » Sat Sep 18, 2010 3:50

The trend observed from windowsxp to windows7 of repeatedly erasing the mbr from the grub of other os and replace with BOOTMGR (after every windows7 reboot) -- then is there such a possibility that in future the hardware products might have some newer features which can impose some terms and conditions for other os from installation unless they fulfill something?
Regarding ntos, If one were to hope for a windowsxp type ntos with more security features but without the MBR-wars unleashed on other os like what the windows7 does, then it implies waiting for years till mingw (gcc+g++) based reactos and its fpos type freepascal-clone-os (with greengnome-shell and freedos-terminal-extension) develop.
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Re: Is windows7's update BOOTMGR designed for waging MBR war

Postby Stupot » Sat Sep 18, 2010 7:13

Perhaps someday EFI will be the standard over BIOS and we'll see some changes then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible ... _Interface
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