Techradar posted an article how Windows 8 is faster, lighter and more efficient
Windows 8: faster and lighterNever mind Windows 8's Metro interface and the inevitable iPad comparisons. Just as significant for the future of Windows is the question of what's under the hood. Those Metro apps ? whether they're HTML5 or Silverlight ? are running on a whole new system called WinRT, but the whole of Windows has been significantly improved to boot faster, use less memory, be more secure and handle networks better. We asked the director of Windows program management, Gabriel Aul, to explain how Windows 8 manages to deliver that.For instance, how come the preview version of Windows 8 uses a little over half the memory that the preview version of Windows 7 took up (going from 540MB to 281MB on a 1GB netbook, for example)?How Windows 8 is faster, lighter and more efficient
