Microsoft wants to dramatically improve boot times in Windows 7 after admitting that Vista has failed to meet its goal of providing high-speed booting for the majority of PCs.

Postings on Microsoft’s Engineering Windows 7 blog have so far been notable largely for their ability to say almost “it depends” in response to almost any Windows-related issue, but a new post by engineer Michael Fortin does come close to making some promises about how boot performance — long a thorn in the side of Vista and its predecessors — might be improved.

“For Windows 7, a top goal is to significantly increase the number of systems that experience very good boot times,” Fortin wrote. “In the lab, a very good system is one that boots in under 15 seconds.”

Read more here: 15 second boot times in Windows 7: Microsoft

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