Monday, October 3, 2011

Windows 8 – Booting Up in 8 seconds

It seems 8 it’s really the magic number

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While there is not an official announcement that Windows 8 will really be called Windows 8 when it hits the RTM version (but everyone suspect it will…) it seems that the number 8 will be intrinsically related to the new Microsoft operating system.

A lot of users evaluate their machine performance by the quickness to boot up so, after some studies Microsoft concluded that 57% of PC/Desktop users and 45% of notebook users, normally turn their equipment completely off instead of take them into an hibernation state.
The most frequently reason to do this, it’s because users want 0% power loss when their note using their machine.

With this in mind, Microsoft decided to take a little work on Windows 8 boot time and really made an amazing job. The final magic number it’s 8 seconds which is really impressive.
It’s important that we should take in consideration some factors like the used technology (UEFI; SSD; etc) but after testing 20 PC’s it’s proved that Windows 8 really improves boot time if you compare it with Windows 7 on the same machine.

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There’s also a video showing of this fast boot experience:

To know more about what’s Microsoft doing with boot time, visit this website:
Building Windows 8 – Delivering Fast Boot Times in Windows 8

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