An Example of Microsoft Genius

[FlukeRogi]

Like me, you may have been wondering on how the boffins at MS have managed to improve the performance of Win7 over Vista. Well, I just noticed this in an interview by the BBC with John Curran of Microsoft, which gives a hint at their technical godliness..

"We were able to shave 400 milliseconds off the shutdown time by slightly trimming the WAV file shutdown music."

 

[FlukeRogi]

I don't know about other people, but for my own sanity, system sounds are one of the first things I disable after installing Windows.

 

[FlukeRogi]

1/2 a second on a 4 second shutdown time seems a reasonable %

Maybe, but it was the fact that in an interview, and able to promote how Windows 7 does something better, that he resorts to saying how they cut a bit off the end of a wav file!

It could be that is the level of computing knowledge that MS attributes to the average PC using Brit. Then again, what am I saying... Some of the things people have asked me over the years...