Microsoft files patent for fast booting OS

[win7holic]

One of the big issues with the Windows operating system is boot times. While some PC makers have tried to speed up the time between turning on the power to seeing the desktop, it can still take a little while to get the OS to start working from a cold start up. Now Microsoft has filed for a new patent that it claims will speed up operating system boot times.

The patent, as discovered by Electronista.com, is titled "Fast Machine Booting Through Streaming Storage". Microsoft describes a cloud-based networked system that would allow an operating system like, say, Windows to be streamed into a PC and then stored into memory on that PC. The system sounds a little bit like how OnLive streams its PC games to be played by PC gamers with only a small download file and near instant playing.

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[iPanik]

Streaming?... ok, i'm game.

hope they have a good plan for offline usage. else i foresee some nightmarish situations around say, vacations or capped connections.

 

[HeffeD]

I'm not liking the cloud bit...

 

[K__M]

Probably going to put this is windows 8?

 

[Hungry Man]

How strange.

Windows 8 doesn't even have a "Shut down" option and new intel CPU's will include fastboot mechanisms. Seems pointless... but maybe for a phone?