Longhorn faster than XP, claims M$ (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Tuesday, 19 July 2005

Longhorn faster than XP, claims M$

Microsoft claims that its upcoming Longhorn operating system will outperform Windows XP in a number of areas, including startup and application launch times. While XP’s boot times are not terrible, the area that really needs work is desktop login times; admittedly, most of the crap that slows down login is third-party junk (spyware and virus checkers, “quick launch” tools), but getting that stuff to start faster would be much more helpful than getting me to the login prompt more quickly.

þ: Ars Technica, who are also somewhat skeptical.

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