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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."
Only because Linux ISN'T fully featured.
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?
In all honesty, I love the multiple minutes it takes to bring up windows now. Instant on would be a detriment.
QUIT TRYING TO RUN WINDOWS ON A 386, TOOL. Twelve seconds flat from power-on to Crysis-ready on my XP machine.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
"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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Can you show me the old concept of booting Windows instantly? Why do you assume they mean something that allows you to bash them? Oh wait, I guess I know, because you're a faggot.