The Windows 8 Boot Configuration menu is given a graphical interface

Windows 8 replaces the operating system selection and diagnostics menu that pops up in front of the usual boot screen.

The new interface will be a fully graphical screen with the help of UEFI technology, according to the lesson of the presentation. This is not only due to the now quite fashionable interface of the old MS-DOS, but also to make the entire interface easy to use, even with the typically touch-screen devices that use ARM.

The announcement was made in the latest Build Windows 8 blog post, which discusses how good this new boot configuration menu is for us. Let's see what the successor to the MS-DOS basic pre-boot menu is. Thanks to the graphical interface, easy for everyone to use, it won’t be scary to come across one like this before the boot process. Hopefully, most of the time it will appear in the form shown in the image, i.e. when you select the operating system you want to boot. From now on, if you want to change something, you won't have to start editing the boot.ini file, because there are also settings menus. Here we can specify how long it will take for the default system to load automatically, this can be up to 5 minutes, but typically the usual 30 seconds will be active and we can even speed it up, in which case it will only wait 5 seconds for our command. Under the next menu item, you can select which operating system should be the default. And finally the third main menu, which leads to a detailed settings menu. Here, perhaps what should be highlighted is access to the command line menu, which will still be present, only tucked away, this can be password protected for security.

Microsoft says it's good, I'm skeptical, because the graphical interface may give some less knowledgeable people the courage to touch it and change it, and from now on, the device can be serviced…

Source: Microsoft