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How Microsoft sped up the Windows 8 boot process
By: Lance Whitney
September 21, 2011 8:46 AM PDT
We all complain that booting up our PCs takes much longer than it should. With Windows 8 on the horizon, Microsoft is trying to streamline and speed up the whole boot process.
In the latest edition of the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft program manager Billie Sue Chafins explained yesterday how the company strove to make some long overdue improvements to the much-maligned boot experience and bring it "into the 21st century."
As described in a previous blog, Microsoft is promising a faster boot in Windows 8 courtesy of a new hybrid technology that keeps the PC in a low-energy hibernation state so that it's not powering up from scratch. So, instead taking a minute or more for your PC to conduct its POST (Power-on Self-test) and hand over the reins to the BIOS, that process should take about seven seconds under Windows 8, according to Microsoft.
Windows 8 is also hitting the market just as the traditional and slower BIOS is starting to give way to the newer and faster UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), an attempt to modernize the way the PC talks to and passes control to the operating system.
More to rad at:
http://news.cnet.com...8-boot-process/
By: Lance Whitney
September 21, 2011 8:46 AM PDT
We all complain that booting up our PCs takes much longer than it should. With Windows 8 on the horizon, Microsoft is trying to streamline and speed up the whole boot process.
In the latest edition of the Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft program manager Billie Sue Chafins explained yesterday how the company strove to make some long overdue improvements to the much-maligned boot experience and bring it "into the 21st century."
As described in a previous blog, Microsoft is promising a faster boot in Windows 8 courtesy of a new hybrid technology that keeps the PC in a low-energy hibernation state so that it's not powering up from scratch. So, instead taking a minute or more for your PC to conduct its POST (Power-on Self-test) and hand over the reins to the BIOS, that process should take about seven seconds under Windows 8, according to Microsoft.
Windows 8 is also hitting the market just as the traditional and slower BIOS is starting to give way to the newer and faster UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), an attempt to modernize the way the PC talks to and passes control to the operating system.
More to rad at:
http://news.cnet.com...8-boot-process/
