It is only nitpicking until it causes problems (e.g. driver XYZ tells you to "restart" your PC, so you "shutdown" for the night expecting it to do the job - but

It is only nitpicking until it causes problems (e.g. driver XYZ tells you to "restart" your PC, so you "shutdown" for the night expecting it to do the job - but it won't). I have no issue with Fast Startup in Windows 8, but frankly feel like the way Microsoft is abusing terminology is borderline lying to people. They're trying to mislead people into thinking that Windows 8 has a better boot performance than Windows 7, when in fact Windows 8 and Windows 7 have very similar boot performance (from real cold-boot).