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A big and welcome change could be to PCs. The time spent waiting for our computer to up could soon be cut to seconds of the minute or three we currently have to wait. This is good for people who pull their hair out at the of time it takes for a PC to start. How will this happen? There will be an update to one of the most pieces of start-up software – the Bios. This does all the and prepares the Operating System. It is an old of technology that has never caught up with the and speed of today’s computers. Its replacement, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), should be on most PCs by 2011. The UEFI is more and much faster than the Bios.

Mark Doran, of the group overseeing the development of the UEFI, explained the to the BBC: "At the moment it can be 25-30 seconds of boot time before you see the first of OS sign-on. With UEFI we're getting it under a of seconds," he said. Mr Doran said that the technology is developing very quickly, saying: "In of boot speed, we're not at ‘-on’ yet but it is already a lot better than the conventional Bios can and we're getting closer to that every day." The UEFI is to save companies around the world billions of dollars. When time is money, having to wait minutes to start work after turning a PC on costs industry a . Home users will also say goodbye to tapping their on their desk.