Comments on: Microsoft may kick Linux boot time with “instant on” in Windows 7

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By: Dude

Dude — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:50:25 +0000

Dued. It’s Ubuntu, not ubunto.

By: oaul

oaul — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:07:30 +0000

Instant on, Pah, my ZX spectrum did that in 1983, when i added a +d drive it could boot in just a few seconds to a menu then load a game in about 5, in some cases it could auto load games,

actually we have a sega megadrive at work, plug in game cartridge, turn on, play game, pretty quick

By: alex

alex — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:10:45 +0000

did you ever hear about coreboot (linuxbios) or about magicgate?

By: ahsan

ahsan — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:23:52 +0000

no never

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:09:01 +0000

Quote: “… a feature for Windows 7 that would boot up to a limited functionality environment in 8 seconds …”

Well that’s tautological, because any *anything* Microsoft does yields a “limited functionality environment”. In truth, getting a faster boot up into Windows would be like bringing forward your appointment for root canal surgery.

Quote: “Microsoft isn’t promising anything yet”

Oh, so no promises from Microsoft? Well, that’s a big surprise, isn’t it? As Eruaran said, this is just more vapourware.

Quote: “Improving boot up times could do some good in overcoming the perceived flexibility gap between Windows and Linux”.

What’s with the use of the term “perceived”? It is not a “perception” that there is a gap between Linux and Windows, it is a *REALITY*. (Furthermore, it is not a gap, it is a yawning chasm, and it is getting ever wider as a dithering and desperate Microsoft continues to manifest the symptoms of a corporation that has completely lost the plot).

Quote: “Of course, Microsoft certainly isn’t the first to think about this feature”.

Of course Microsoft are rarely the first to think about any feature. They are “fast followers”, which is simply a diplomatic way of describing them as the pathetic plagiarists and thieves that they are. Now it’s proving hard for them to keep up, and they appear to be on the verge of having a heart attack.

By: James

James — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:08:26 +0000

What an utterly ignorant article.

How could this possibly be a “significant differentiator” for Windows when Linux has been doing this for years? One recent example: ASUS Express Gate. Microsoft is the one playing catch up here (again). As usual if you want actual innovation, you go to the open source community.

By: Arthur Pemberton

Arthur Pemberton — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:34:00 +0000

Google “5 second linux boot”

By: guesswho

guesswho — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:38:59 +0000

Limited environment in 8 seconds? My A1200′ll boot a full desktop in that time from floppy.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:58:13 +0000

Linux and Windows do not have the same boot times…unless has at least 2 GB. Vista needs about 2 GB to function properly unhacked.

Linux can run fine on 512 MB RAM. If you compare Linux and Vista at 512 MB or even 1 GB … Linux will boot up faster and run much better than Vista could ever dream about.

If one hacks Vista down, one can make Vista almost have the same boot times as XP. But this requires disabling..system restore, windows defender, indexing, aero, resource hungry anti virus programs, and the side bar and reduce startup programs down to one or two.

So Microsoft decides to have a “innovative” instant on spashtop on Windows 7 ?

Amazing…Where do they come up with these brainstorms?

Fact is they haven’t released anything original or innovative in a long time. They have to look at other operating systems like Linux and copy it.
The last major innovation was Windows XP, but that was over seven years ago.