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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st Sep 2008 08:55 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne

A common topic of discussion in the Windows world - in fact, in any operating system - is boot performance. Many systems take a long time to reach a usable desktop from the moment the power switch is pressed, and this can be quite annoying if it takes too long. In a post on the Engineering 7 blog, Michael Fortin, lead engineer of Microsoft's Fundamentals/Core Operating System Group, explains what Microsoft is doing to make Windows 7 boot faster.

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RE: faster boot - why?

by kragil on Mon 1st Sep 2008 09:35 UTC in reply to "faster boot - why?"

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2006-01-04

Boot time is important.
For servers it reduces downtime.
For consumer electronics is improves the user experience ( Sony has Linux booting down to less than 5 sec on their TV sets .. but that is still way too long.)

And after all it is just nice to not wait for stupid stuff like the computer booting into a usable state.

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RE[2]: faster boot - why?

by pantsgolem on Mon 1st Sep 2008 20:42 in reply to "RE: faster boot - why?"

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2008-08-30

For servers it reduces downtime.

You know, I'm willing to bet this is pretty much the only reason MS is working so much on the boot time issue. If it were just an issue of user experience, they'd continue to fall back on their "our (carefully controlled) lab tests (with impossibly awesome hardware) clearly prove that Vista is the fastest system ever!" story.

I've shopped for Windows-based hosting exactly never, but I don't imagine there are that many offerings running on Vista, and the few that exist probably don't offer 99.999% uptime. MS knows they have to have something with acceptable boot performance out before Windows Server 2003 reaches end-of-life, or there will be a lot of companies jumping ship.

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RE[3]: faster boot - why?

by gustl on Sat 6th Sep 2008 18:58 in reply to "RE[2]: faster boot - why?"

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2006-01-19

Well, for 99.999% uptime you would need a hell of alot of redundancy anyway, with Windows you just need a little more than with others.

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RE[2]: faster boot - why?

by modmans2ndcoming on Mon 1st Sep 2008 22:39 in reply to "RE: faster boot - why?"

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2005-11-09

Why do they have to boot Linux at all on their TVs? They could use solid state memory and simply load up with out running through a boot process.

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