Quicker boosts, quicker boots.

One of the most obsessed over features of Windows is its boot time, according to Windows chief Steven Sinofsky. As such, he says in a blog post, Windows 8 will boot so fast it will make the relatively ...

Show of hands: Who feels like it’s too inconvenient to fully shut down your computer at night? Sure, you might save some energy or battery life with a full shutdown, and the system might appreciate ...

Microsoft has a surprise for users tired of waiting forever while their computers boot up. It will take less than 10 seconds for a Windows 8 PC to go from powered down to the start screen, according ...

This should be on by default ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...