BBC News : Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

"New PCs could start in just seconds, thanks to an update to one of the oldest parts of desktop computers.

The upgrade will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start-up software known as Bios that initialises a machine so its operating system can get going.
The code was not intended to live nearly this long, and adapting it to modern PCs is one reason they take as long as they do to warm up.
Bios' replacement, known as UEFI, will predominate in new PCs by 2011.
The acronym stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface and is designed to be more flexible than its venerable predecessor." ~Mark Ward

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11430069

Being honest I did not even think about how old BIOS was, nor did I ever think something would replace it. But getting my computer to "boot" faster is a good thing and a bad thing. I run a dual boot system, Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7. For those of you that are wondering why.... Because I can, and I want to learn more about Linux. Ubuntu is one of the more wider known versions and fairly easy to use.
For those of you that do not know what dual booting is, basically it means my computer runs two operating systems of which I choose what one will load during boot up.
Here's the Wiki definition of it:
Multi-boot or Multi-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a computer, and being able to choose which one to boot when starting the computer. The term dual-booting refers to the common configuration of exactly two operating systems. Multi-booting requires a program called a boot loader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-boot