One of the great things about Linux is that you hardly ever have to boot at all... My home server has gone months at a time without any rebooting. Shaving 5 seconds off boot (as it seems would happen moving from 8.10 to 9.04 on a Core 2 Duo system) will save me around 5 seconds/month. That's one extra slashdot summary.

Now, an unstable O/S like Windows, then boot time matters. You might be saving a few minutes a day with those kinds of numbers. There's a serious productivity gain.

...never really turns out well in the end.

You know, clicking the link you provided is the first time I've been to the Zune.net site.

Who the hell designed that? For more than a few seconds, I thought I was on one of those parked domain link sites.

Yech.