Windows 8 Startup... OMG

[Ducman69]

Can't wait for Windows 8! For those not in the know, it has the functionality of Windows 7 that many are already using today, but allegedly with a very strong focus towards touch-interface and far greater performance enhancements than even were seen from the Vista to W7 optimization, particularly in cold-boot time.

Well, Microsoft has released a demo on a HP laptop to show the latter is already a done-deal:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcH8n_oFf0c[/youtube]

HOLY COW!

Here's a vid showing what W8 looks like so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I

 

[HappyPuppy]

Have you seen what they did to file management? It looks like Office and that horrid ribbon bar. Unless there is an option to get rid of it I am staying with 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY4V3ZhVh34&sns=em

 

[XXX526]

Those fVcking ribbon bars are overtaking every program out there - makes me want to.... nevermind. That's what happens when software developers are trying to make programs take on a "game like" romperoom experience. Rant over. :evil:

 

[extreme601]

Stop making everything so freaking user friendly

I don't think I'll be upgrading.

 

[Ducman69]

Isn't user-friendly a good thing?

As long as the advanced features are still there, I figure its good that stuff is intuitive. If its just a GUI layer though, I'm sure like in W7 and Vista before it they will have a 'classic' mode available since that doesn't affect functionality/performance for those resistant to change.

OSX does take it to a bit of an extreme though, with the new iMac looking like a 27" iPad, heh.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct1_r_61sk8[/youtube]

 

[matth1138]

That boot time is awesome.

However, my new job is working with a ton of artist-types, so I'll be switching to Mac to gain their acceptance.

And the first thing I'll do is install Win7.

 

[HappyPuppy]

The boot time I am sure is due to an SSD. My son added a 256 Meg one to his wickedly fast machine running win 7 and it amazing the difference even from a 7200 drive. They are great for video work

 

[Ducman69]

The boot time I am sure is due to an SSD. My son added a 256 Meg one to his wickedly fast machine running win 7 and it amazing the difference even from a 7200 drive. They are great for video work

Oh for sure, however, even w/ a good SSD on a netbook (minimalist bios) running TinyXP Rev09, you simply don't get THAT fast of a bootup.

I posted this in the youtube comments:

this is an EliteBook, and it will not show a HP post logo on a wakeup resume.
what MS likely did is recoded the OS so you can load a bare minimum of services needed to display a desktop splash screen and establish connectivity. other services are then likely loading for a while after.
it also doesn't hurt that this laptop has a very fast SSD harddrive, which isn't all THAT much slower than RAM.

 

[66shinobi]

No matter what improvements are made to mac or windows, I'll always make the thinking mans choice and side with Linux.

Deleting windows was the best decision I ever made. It made my 6 year old dell laptop run better than it ever had and it poo's all over my girlfriends vaio on windows 7 ultimate and her dads MacBook pro running on snow leopard when it comes to boot times

 

[KawaJedi]

This has to be fake.
clever editing and special effects.
Nothing from MS can be that fast.
and no notebook I have met POST's that quick, nevermind the OS.
and its MS I mean realy???

 

[William.P]

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[Chessecake94]

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