Windows 8 boot time to be drastically reduced, shown off in video

Watch the above video closely, since you might just miss the instant: in line with the newest post on MSDN’s Building Windows 8 blog, Microsoft’s next-gen desktop OS will see a hugely improved boot time attributable to a clever technique. In preference to closing both the user session and the kernel session like in a standard shutdown, Windows 8 will preserve the kernel session at the disk, thus making a “hiberfile” that’s much smaller than that of the same old Windows hibernation — see the diagram after the break for a clearer idea. The end result? An amazingly fast system bootup — inspite of the battery removed first of all — that says to be 30 to 70 percent faster than most systems tested by Microsoft. We’re itching to check this option on an SSD ourselves, but until then, you could head over to MSDN’s blog for the whole technical explanation.