Can't afford to upgrade to an SSD to reduce your boot times? No worries, Microsoft has you covered, or at least that's what the company is claiming, although you'll have to upgrade to Windows 8 to reap the benefit of 30 to 70 percent faster boot times.
As you might've already gathered, we're not talking about cold boot here though, as Microsoft has come up with a new way to nearly power off your system. Although the company doesn't seem to have come up with a proper name for it yet, the MSDN blog talks about "fast startup" as something of a hybrid between hibernation and a cold boot.
