In 92% of all usage cases, the Start Menu in Windows 7 Build 7033 opens between 50ms and 100ms, this in real-life scenarios, Microsoft emphasized, as it made public telemetry data gathered via PerfTrack. Moving onward with the development process of Windows 7, Microsoft is currently focused on the Release Candidate branch, with the promise that the evolution from Beta to RC will be marked by a wide range of improvements, including performance boosts. A comparison between the Start Menu open times in Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 and Windows 7 Build 7033 from the RC-branch is in this regard an illustrative example of how Microsoft's work reverberates throughout the operating system. In this specific scenario, Microsoft used the feedback data provided by the PerfTrack tool in order to improve the speed at which the Start Menu in Windows 7 opens.More at; http://news.softpedia.com/news/Build-7000-Beta-vs-Build-7033-Windows-7-Start-Menu-Open-Times-105507.shtml