Early Speed Tests For Windows 8 242
adeelarshad82 writes "You often hear in the software industry that performance optimization is one of the last steps in the software development process. That bodes well for Windows 8, considering at the early stage of Developer Preview—even before we've seen an actual beta—the nascent operating system is getting widespread praise for its performance, particularly in startup times. Anecdotal evidence is always encouraging, but PCMag decided to run some very early tests on the OS to see if the reports were wishful thinking or if there was a real, measurable boost in speed. Along with startup and shutdown times, they used several standard industry benchmarks to compare Windows 8 performance with that of Windows 7 running on the same machine."
Re:Performance (Score:4, Interesting)
MS tried to throttle the startup programs in Vista so they don't all hit the disk at once, but reportedly gave up that idea in Windows 7:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/08/17/10196425.aspx [msdn.com]
Re:65% improvement but still more than half a minu (Score:4, Interesting)
Startup time, until login screen, or desktop, or usable system, or fully usable system ....?
The four are different and most people assume you mean the last, when most are measured to the first .... ...and unless you have a laptop why are you turning the machine on and off enough to worry about boot times (in the real world the difference between 20s and 1 minutes is a vast gulf, the difference between 1 minute and 5 minutes is irrelevant)
Startup time is not a useful metric (Score:5, Interesting)
Ideally, a modern desktop OS should be booted once. The rest of the time it should be slipping in and out of sleep.
In practice it seems that a few months between reboots (for OS updates) is easily attainable on some platforms.
When a reboot occurs once every few months, boot time is not terribly important.
I can't help but think that people who marvel at improved boot times are rebooting their machines too much.
Re:Linux =Startup time non-issue, no frequent rest (Score:4, Interesting)
Sorry to break it to you, shill, but you're full of hot air and you need a tic-tac.
But to balance it out, everything in your post was wrong.