With Windows 7, my desktop took about 30 seconds to go from starting the boot logo to the login screen. On Windows 8? Today, it booted in about10 seconds . If it boots this fast on a standard hard drive, I can't imagine seeing it boot on a high end SSD. This is an upgrade install over Windows 8, and I still have lots of programs and such.

I thought it was essentially an "Ultimate Edition" given the Bitlocker stuff in it. Also, it does have tablet features in it. I see them frequently on my touchscreen laptop (suck as the on-screen keyboard that is literally identical to that of Windows Phone 7...)

Mine used to be lightning fast until I started installing all of the apps I have on Win7.

Now it takes about two minutes.

Still, it's better than my Win7 bootup (almost 5 minutes) as I haven't insatalled all of the apps yet.

It is amazingly light and quick for an Alpha build, too. I can open up my laptop after a hibernation and the screen will be up in literally 3 seconds. It's great!

It's so fast I literally have sat down for 10 minutes just shutting down and rebooting. Why? Because it's fast and I can.

Yep, it's all about Hybrid Boot, but it has some flaws though. Actually, there's a video on Microsoft's Building 8 blog that shows the boot speed on a solid state drive. It's literally like resuming from sleep on a hard drive! It is insane!!

Man, that makes me really, really want to get an SSD for my laptop! *drools*