Are you one of those people who turns the machine off at night and on in the morning to clear out the cruft? Windows 8 feels your coffee-making pain.
Windows 8 will have much faster boot-up times, the divisional chief Steven Sinofsky has promised in a new blogpost on Microsoft's developer blogs.To prove that Microsoft is serious about speeding up the process of restarting the machine from a "cold" state - which it says data retrieved from systems shows is used by 45% of laptop users, and 57% of all Windows 7 users - the company has posted a video showing a test system booting up in just two seconds.
While the system in the demonstration is highly optimised, and relies on a solid-state disk (SSD) to help increase the speed at which data is read off the disk, the new posting shows that the Windows team is determined to cut the time spent by most users waiting for their machines to become usable.
"When it comes to talking about "fundamentals" we want to start with boot time
Windows 8 will have much faster boot-up times, the divisional chief Steven Sinofsky has promised in a new blogpost on Microsoft's developer blogs.To prove that Microsoft is serious about speeding up the process of restarting the machine from a "cold" state - which it says data retrieved from systems shows is used by 45% of laptop users, and 57% of all Windows 7 users - the company has posted a video showing a test system booting up in just two seconds.
While the system in the demonstration is highly optimised, and relies on a solid-state disk (SSD) to help increase the speed at which data is read off the disk, the new posting shows that the Windows team is determined to cut the time spent by most users waiting for their machines to become usable.
"When it comes to talking about "fundamentals" we want to start with boot time