Bellevue, WA and San Jose, CA, April 4, 2006
 
General Software, Inc., the leading supplier of x86 firmware solutions to the custom device marketplace, today announced industry leading boot performance for its flagship product Embedded BIOS2000.

Working with Microsoft, General Software has successfully delivered a fully functional mobile device BIOS with record fast boot times.

These boot times are critically important for the upcoming release of Microsoft Windows Vista operating system and the new Hybrid Hard Disk Drive technology that will be prevalent in new mobile devices introduced this year.

Using a standard commercial PC motherboard with a mobile processor and chipset, General Software was able to create a BIOS implementation to optimally support the new drive technology and Windows Vista Beta 2. Manufacturers of the next generation of mobile devices running Windows Vista will require a fast BIOS implementation to deliver on the performance of this latest development in disk drive technology.

Ccompleting all essential tasks of the BIOS in less than one second, our BIOS boots Windows Vista faster than any BIOS to date enabling improved user experience for suspend and resume? said Steve Dearden, VP of Sales and Marketing at General Software.he technology developed by Microsoft in Windows Vista to support Hybrid Hard Disk Drives from manufacturers such as Samsung requires a new approach to optimizing BIOS boot speed.

Only General Software BIOS has been architected to make these BIOS improvements immediately available for mobile device manufacturers?

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