Windows 8 will get heavily reduced boot times over Windows 7. Microsoft has revealed this in its development blog for the new operating system where it has presented new technologies for shortening the boot times substantially. Microsoft promises 30-70 percent faster boots – from power off and also harddrive systems are affected.
Microsoft have gathered information from Windows users and realized that most still prefer to restart or do a cold boot. This is to get a fresh session while also saving power.
With Windows 8 Microsoft will take this into consideration and make the boot a lot more efficient, even from a cold start. This will be all the more important with the more mobile market.
The result is a technology Microsoft calls “hybrid boot” that is a combination of a cold start and sleep mode. In Windows 8 the operating system will still close down all user sessions at a shutdown, but the kernel session goes into sleep. With a new technology that requires less data and loads quicker from your harddrive. The session and memory content is written to the storage unit and at a new boot this information is transferred to the memory and that way cuts the boot time with 30-70% depending on the system.
Microsoft has also made sure that the restoration of the sleeping session happens faster by developing a parallel storage technology that makes use of the multiple cores of modern processors to unpack the data. In Microsoft’s own presentation it gives a pretty impressive result in a regular laptop.
