Microsoft’s work focused on optimizing the startup of Windows PCs will continue with Windows 8. At least according to leaked information that made its way into the wild recently. Windows 7 customers are undoubtedly already well aware of the fact that the Redmond company has fine-tuned their operating system to boot and shut down as fast as possible. Obviously, the software giant needs to deliver even better startup and shut down performance with Windows 8.

The company notes in one slide deck shared with partners that: “Windows 8 PCs turn on fast, nearly instant in some cases, and are ready to work without any long or unexpected delays. When customers want to check email, sport scores, or play media they love to reach for their PCs because they can get what they want quickly.”

Microsoft also revealed a few areas that are under consideration, including “Faster On from 0 Watts; Instant Sleep resume performance for mobile PCs; rationalize the user experience for the various on / off states; tools and telemetry for ecosystem optimization; performance tracking, diagnostics and configuration options for enthusiast users.”

One important new aspect of Windows 8’s evolution will apparently be the combination of Logoff and Hibernate. The software giant is looking to marry the two Off states for Windows 8 to deliver the fastest possible resume time from 0 Watts. In this regard, the Redmond company indicates that Windows 8’s shutdown and boot will be similar to those of Windows 7. Still, all the details of the startup and shutdown processes will be optimized.

Among the enhancements planed for Windows 8 are

“- multiple, small performance enhancements resulting in a large cumulative impact;
- remove, reduce, delay – e.g., Windows 7 “Trigger-Start” services;
- exploit parallelism whenever possible;
- set hard time caps on the shutdown path;
- boot layout prefetcher;
- (Win8) ReadyBoost cache persistent across boot;
- leverages Hibernate technology to cache most of the core system.”

Make sure to check the slides included below for additional details.

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