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What is the deal with boot time as an OS metric? Is it really important to boot 5 seconds faster than the previous iteration?

• wtallis 14y ago
  It's an obvious measurable performance indicator that shouldn't get worse without a very good explanation, and when it gets significantly better, indicates that the developers are capable of optimizing something. Often times, boot time improvements can be partially due to optimizations that help during ordinary use as well.
• OriginalSyn 14y ago
  When the OS forces a reboot after 3 days of an update if you don't manually do it yourself it can be important.
• sukuriant 14y ago
  That's a fair question. Personally, I'm impressed with how fast my machine boots up. It's certainly better than minutes/near-minutes my old machine used to. The same could be said about a few milliseconds when loading a web page; but Google Chrome does really weird (but awesome!!) network adapter/caching hacks to get those few milliseconds, and many people are grateful for it. And, 5 seconds on newer machines is a lot more time on older machines. (Disclosure, since the topic is on it: Microsoft employee. The remarks are my own, not the company's, blah blah)