Microsoft Promises Updates Without Reboots!

GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
edited December 2005 in Science & Tech
eWeek reports that Microsoft is developing a new feature for Windows Vista, called the Restart Manager, that will allow parts of the Operating System to be updated without requiring the entire PC to reboot.
"If a part of an application, or the operating system itself, needs to updated, the Installer will call the Restart Manager, which looks to see if it can clear that part of the system so that it can be updated. If it can do that, it does, and that happens without a reboot," he said.

"If you have to reboot, then what happens is that the system, together with the applications, takes a snapshot of the state: the way things are on the screen at that very moment, and then it just updates and restarts the application, or in the case of an operating system update, it will bring the operating system back exactly where it was," Allchin said.
Source: eWeek

Comments

  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited December 2005
    yay?

    dunno... but it takes me like 30 secs to get up and running so it dont really bother me to restart...
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2005
    Jengo: But remember, you lose everything you have open and have to go through the process of restarting over and over again (when installing things before I ended up having to restart like 6 times).
  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited December 2005
    It will be nice if it supports their Server OS's.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited December 2005
    DanG wrote:
    It will be nice if it supports their Server OS's.


    Hell yeah :thumbsup:
  • RewiredRewired Member
    edited December 2005
    Cool.
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