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title: "What is UEFI?"  
description: "What is UEFI?"  
author: "Vijay Shukla"  
published: 2012-12-22  
updated: 2020-09-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1610/what-is-uefi  
category: "windows 8"  
tags: ["windows 8"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is UEFI?

**UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)** will be a specification detailing an interface that helps hand off control of the system for the pre-boot environment (i.e.: after the system is powered on, but before the operating system starts) to an operating system, such as Windows* or Linux*. UEFI will provide a clean interface between operating systems and platform firmware at boot time, and will support an architecture-independent mechanism for initializing add-in cards.

## Answers

### Answer by Vijay Shukla

**UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)** will be a specification detailing an interface that helps hand off control of the system for the pre-boot environment (i.e.: after the system is powered on, but before the operating system starts) to an operating system, such as Windows* or Linux*. UEFI will provide a clean interface between operating systems and platform firmware at boot time, and will support an architecture-independent mechanism for initializing add-in cards.


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