Microsoft Makes Longhorn Performance Promises

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited July 2005 in Science & Tech
Just weeks before Beta 1 is due to be released, Microsoft has committed to some specific metrics around the kind of fundamental improvements Longhorn will deliver.

Amy Stephan, a senior product manager with the Windows client unit, has said Longhorn will:

-Launch applications 15 percent faster than Windows XP does
-Boot PCs 50 percent faster than they boot currently and will allow PCs to resume from standby in two seconds
-Allow users to patch systems with 50 percent fewer reboots required
-Reduce the number of system images required by 50 percent
-Enable companies to migrate users 75 percent faster than they can with existing versions of Windows.
The technologies which will deliver these enhancements have yet to be unveiled in full. But much of that functionality should, at least in theory, be part of Longhorn Beta 1, which is expected to go out to testers by early August. Microsoft said recently that it is planning to provide a refresh of the Beta 1 bits by mid-September at the Professional Developers Conference. Beta 2 isn't slated until some time in the first half of 2006, however. Beta 2 will be the first wide-scale Longhorn beta release to feature the new Aero user interface.
Source: Microsoft Watch

Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    Promises they won't keep.... I am lookingf orward to this system, but I highly doubt what they claim simply becuase of time constraints at this stage.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    oh.. Oh... OH ..! I wanna see this ;)

    What the fine print doesn't tell you is that to achieve it, you need 15k SCSI disks with an X2 processor and 4GB of ram ;D:D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    Eager but skeptical.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited July 2005
    The biggest problem with boot time has nothing to do with software. The damn BIOS is holding back boot times for the most part.

    So if its going to be cut in half....loading XP is about half of my boot time. So its going to load instantly right?
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    If this is true then I shouldn't need to upgrade my computer, right ;D?

    Let me know when the patches requiring reboots hits the same number as my linux machine: 0

    -drasnor :fold:
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    Look at the (must maligned) hibernate... On a system that is running perfectly, coming back from hibernation is fast... again, the BIOS is the stumbling block but fast none the less.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    drasnor wrote:
    If this is true then I shouldn't need to upgrade my computer, right ;D?

    Let me know when the patches requiring reboots hits the same number as my linux machine: 0

    -drasnor :fold:

    Don't you need to reboot after you update the kernel? I thought it was necessary...perhaps I've been rebooting my server too often.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited July 2005
    You have to reboot after you upgrade the kernel, but I'm from the school of upgrading your kernel is like upgrading your BIOS: don't do it unless something isn't working because odds are the next kernel version will break something.

    -drasnor :fold:
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