eWeek is reporting in it’s typically dull way that the new BIOS from Phoenix is able to check ‘Outlook’ without having booted the computer’s operating system - how this will work they do not say, for example do they mean it will connect only to an MS Exchange server or have they built a generic email client into the laptop’s firmware? Thanks to phoenix it is now possible to run a bloatware operating system on top of a bloatware BIOS.
Regardless of how they implement this feature, it is a perfect illustration of Zawinski’s Law in action: “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” - Jamie Zawinski
Compare: Godwin’s Law.
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