Waiting for Windows to Boot

Excuse me, but why does it take so long?

You would think with Moore's Law computing would get faster, but no, there seems to be some acceptable amount of time it takes to boot.

I recently helped someone install a "lite" version of windows XP on an ACER EEPC, which has flash RAM instead of a hard drive. It seems to boot really nicely, of course so does a new PC. So we will see what happens.

Maybe the solution is to equip all PCs with a 4G flash drive to be reserved only for the operating system. Of course if Microsoft does their Usual Thing, that wouldn't be enough.

Just what does it take to support a simple User Interface.

I wish the market was MORE concerned with speed. Windows IS a dog. And I'm no Apple OS booster either. On my MacBook Pro, occasionally OS X will hang, and I will need to re-boot. Not Windows XP. You tell me who makes better software.

And Microsoft Sucks but they are still the best game in town.