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Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh
MrSeb writes "Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, will provide push-button Reset and Refresh in Windows 8. Reset will restore a Windows 8 PC to its stock, fresh-from-the-factory state; Refresh will reinstall Windows 8, but keep your documents and installed Metro apps in tact. For the power users, Windows 8 will include a new tool called recimg.exe, which allows you to create a hard drive image that Refresh will use (you can install all of your Desktop apps, tweak all your settings, run recimg.exe... and then, when you Refresh, you'll be handed a clean, ready-to-go computer). Reset and Refresh are obviously tablety features that Windows 8 will need to compete against iOS and Android — but considering Windows' malware magnetism and the number of times I've had to schlep over to my mother's house with a Windows CD... these features should be very welcome on the desktop, too."
You mean Vista is just as slow as when you installed it? Out of the box I didn't find it incredibly fast or efficent. Service packs later fixed a lot of that, but I don't think people's primary problem with Vista was that "After clicking punch the monkey it slowed down" but more or less "I can't punch the monkey the system is too slow to start with"
No pats on the back for M$ for that, remeber that stability wasn't for free. Everyone that bought windows 2.3, windows 3, windows 3.1, windows for workgroups, windows 95, windows 98, windows 98 second edition, windows NT (various versions), windows millennium edition paid for it and paid through the nose, not only in software costs but lost time.
Even then no real improvement in stability reliability and security occurred until Linux put M$ under competitive pressure. Even then a dog like Vista still came out. How bad is Vista try three days to complete an install complete with all patches to an original day one disk (slowest patching in history).
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen