When it comes to talking about "fundamentals" we want to start with boot time – no feature gets talked about and measured more. We designed Windows 8 so that you shouldn't have to boot all that often (and we are always going to work on reducing the number of required restarts due to patching running code). But when you do boot we want it to be as fast as possible. This is a very deep topic and we have a lot of folks focused on it. We made a bigger leap in this area with Windows 8 than we have in a long time due in no small part to cooperation across the whole ecosystem. Gabe Aul, a director of program management in Windows, authored this post (a first in what will be a series of posts on fundamentals).
--Steven

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011 ... ows-8.aspx

That video is insane!

I fainted upon that boot time is there any use for a boot screen now?

I'll check out the video tomorrow, but just imagine if you installed Windows 8 RTM on a top-of-the-line SATA SSD - Once your PC gets past POST, you're instantly at the Windows login screen.

amd instantly logged in

Wow that is amazing...

OK, if that works how it seems to...that's insane. That addresses one of my main issues with Windows. Here's hoping it works right!

yeah and not like longhorn promises but lies

... I had to watch the video 3 times because I blinked as the system booted (But seriously that is an amazingly fast startup.)

That was fast; I saved a copy for future reference after Win8 RTMs.

I thought the boot times were good in the leaked builds so far, at least one of which actually has this functionality... but damn.



I'm not as amazed after reading that but it is still pretty impressive.

I'm Impressed, but it's just hibernate and not cold start / Complete Shutdown.



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Well, it's not just hibernate. You quoted the difference yourself, plus this:

nice! close to build conf =)

I can't get over how quick that was!!!

They used a SSD in this test:


I most definitely have to buy a SSD for my future laptop

L.E. And I don't know if this has anything to do with the new Protogon FS

i think this is what happened- windows will boot but will only load the secondary UI (one with the cubes and stuff) but after a while, the main ui which is familiar to us is loading in the background

that is fast. even if it is from hibernation. from the time she inserts the battery to being able to use windows is 15secs. it is 5 seconds from post to desktop. that is quick. also yes i agree that this is positive news coming just before the build conference next week. shame i am unable to watch any of it as i have my children from 4pm (GMT) until my wife gets home and i will be cooking their tea when the videos are streamed online.

The new ui looks good but if you watch the video it shows the regular ui before the new ui. I guess depends on the users preference on which ui it will show.

What we can see there so far,

Immersive Browser
App Market
Weather
RSS
Stocks

I don't see what everyone is [censored] their pants over, it seems like the graph shows any computer with a decent HDD or better will only see 10-20% faster boot speeds. Cool but hardly mind-blowing.

The familiar UI loads only on demand , like an app .

im no canouna but that looks like omnimo

LOL'd. It's from MSFT's Video

What you see there before the new UI is actually, the logon screen, and at a closer look at it it seams to me that the Windows session was brought up from hibernation , not complete shut down

If you read the Article they clearly state as I previously quoted, that the Core of MS win 8 never shut down, it goes into Hibernation. You need to explicitly tell it to shutdown, like when adding or removing hardware, else it'll assume nothing changed.

But still that doesnt mean they cant use omnimo