After being left with a slightly sour taste following Microsoft’s reveal of the new ribbon system in Windows 8, the tech giant has restored my faith in their next OS by proving just how fast it is when it comes to booting up.
In the demonstration video posted on their page the test system boots up in under 10 seconds! Granted, it’s probably using an SSD for storage and UEFI instead of BIOS, but looking at the graph above the boot times seem to be relatively consistent on all test systems, which means boot performance should be similar regardless of the hardware used – so everyone will boot faster.
I love the progress they’ve made with Windows 7, and it looks like Windows 8 will continue that trend. Its release day can’t come soon enough!
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