Installing Windows 8 will be 50% faster
The developers of Windows 8 have pleased another article in the corporate blog. This time they talked about improvements in the installer. As usual, all the improvements have been made after a thorough study of user behavior — the previous upgrade procedure seemed too complicated.
First, for Windows OS, for the first time, a small installer was made, which is able to download a system image via the Internet. Probably, developers from Microsoft in this sense inspired the example of OS X Lion. To simplify downloading, the installation image of Windows 8 was compressed to 1.51 GB (Windows 7 x86 occupied 2.32 GB).
Of course, the system can also be installed from a DVD or USB. The process is as simple as possible: the upgrade now requires only 11 mouse clicks.
For comparison, this is how the upgrade scheme for Windows 7 looked.
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The lion's share of mouse clicks fell on the modules Upgrade Advisor and Windows Easy Transfer (Save Files and Settings Wizard). In Windows 8, these two modules are integrated into a single installer, where most of the procedures are automated, including version comparisons, saving files and settings, disabling cryptographic protection programs like BitLocker, etc. As a result, the number of mouse clicks decreased by 82%, that is, to 11.
The “clean” installation time has been reduced from 30 to 20 minutes compared to Windows 7. According to the developers, even the “most complex upgrade” with 1.44 million files and 120 applications will take no more than an hour, whereas before such an upgrade lasted 8-9 (!) Hours.
Such a significant reduction, as you can guess, is due to the rejection of the physical movement of files during the upgrade, now instead simply update the links to files (hard linking). For more information for system administrators, see the Windows 8 blog .
First, for Windows OS, for the first time, a small installer was made, which is able to download a system image via the Internet. Probably, developers from Microsoft in this sense inspired the example of OS X Lion. To simplify downloading, the installation image of Windows 8 was compressed to 1.51 GB (Windows 7 x86 occupied 2.32 GB).
Of course, the system can also be installed from a DVD or USB. The process is as simple as possible: the upgrade now requires only 11 mouse clicks.
For comparison, this is how the upgrade scheme for Windows 7 looked.
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The lion's share of mouse clicks fell on the modules Upgrade Advisor and Windows Easy Transfer (Save Files and Settings Wizard). In Windows 8, these two modules are integrated into a single installer, where most of the procedures are automated, including version comparisons, saving files and settings, disabling cryptographic protection programs like BitLocker, etc. As a result, the number of mouse clicks decreased by 82%, that is, to 11.
The “clean” installation time has been reduced from 30 to 20 minutes compared to Windows 7. According to the developers, even the “most complex upgrade” with 1.44 million files and 120 applications will take no more than an hour, whereas before such an upgrade lasted 8-9 (!) Hours.
Such a significant reduction, as you can guess, is due to the rejection of the physical movement of files during the upgrade, now instead simply update the links to files (hard linking). For more information for system administrators, see the Windows 8 blog .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/133279/
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