Well, this is definitely good news, but there are a few things to keep
in mind.

First, what is the specifications of these systems they're demoing? I'll
bet they're high end systems with SSD drives, so don't assume every
Windows 8 system will be booting this quickly and expect to have to pay
for these short boot times.

It's my understanding that windows 8 accomplishes this by shutting down
the applications and user space while hibernating the kernel. This is a
great idea, but it'll be interesting to see how this is accepted in the
field. For the most part, OS developers haven't considered boot times to
be a significant issue since the assumption was that most users
suspended or hibernated their systems. I think it was MS research that
concluded over half of the PC users were suspicious of suspend/hibernate
and liked to start off with a clean system. Kind of ironic, since it was
the flakiness of suspend/hibernate in the PC's, BIOS and OS's that
caused PC users to be suspicious in the first place.

From numbers I've seen on other lits, this just puts PC's running
windows in the same ball park with Macs and PC's running Linux.
Furthermore, Windows users have already pretty much had this
functionality using suspend/hibernate. I used my laptop/netbook as a
note taker long before I switched to Linux by just using
suspend/hibernate. Typically, I would just use suspend/hibernate during
the weekend and do a complete reboot on the weekend as part of my weekly
clean up routine.

On 13/09/11 18:05, Harry Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
> This just in from the Microsoft build conference, which is taking place
> today.
> http://betanews.com/2011/09/13/live-from-microsoft-build/
> You can read this yourself, but I was waiting for the developers at
> Microsoft to say one certain phrase.
> Then, what to my wondering ears to hear, on my talking computer, what
> did I hear?  This sentence, and you'll see it in the article!
> "Michael Angillo walks on stage, and runs a windows 8 computer that
> nearly boots up instantly!"
> So, there ya go, finally!
> Now of course, those who have packmates, IPhones, etc., have instant on,
> however, this will give the windows 8 user the same kind of boot up. 
> I've been waiting for this, as everybody has who uses computers, because
> I wanted to use my pc as a note taker, recorder, a checkbook ledger, and
> didn't want to have to wait for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
> So, just wanted to share this.
> Also, screen reader developers are working on Windows 8 screen readers. 
> The folks at Fredom Scientific are doing that.  By the way, Windows 8,
> the first preview will be available for download later tonight.  That
> info was in the article I gave you, or, it should be available on the
> microsoft site.
> Harry
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