Microsoft Considers "Instant On" Windows

Barence writes "In what might be a glimpse of things to come in Windows 7, Microsoft is asking customers whether they would be interested in a new 'Instant-on' version of Windows. 'We would like your feedback on a new concept,' the Microsoft survey states. 'The Instant On experience is different from "Full Windows" because it limits what activities you can do and what applications you can have access to.' Sounds interesting but hardly new: Asus and Dell have produced laptops that provide swift access to apps and data using Linux subsystems."

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Re:My opinion

[Tubal-Cain]

I don't have administrator status and wouldn't know what I'm doing anyway.

Considering the fact that Slashdot's target demographic very likely has and prizes those two traits you lack, what interests you here? The MS/MAFIAA-bashing?

Ahem, what's the difference?

[Master of Transhuman]

"The Instant On experience is different from "Full Windows" because it limits what activities you can do and what applications you can have access to"

Every time I boot "Full Windows" on a client's PC, once the desktop comes up I sit there for another thirty seconds to a minute depending on how much crap is loading in the background. So I'd say "Full Windows" limits what activities you can do - for a while at least.

My openSUSE Linux boots faster than Windows XP and has a usable desktop pretty much immediately, minus some slowness as the stuff in the system tray loads - no where near as bad as XP.

Windows is an unmitigated POS.

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