<A target="_blank" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394979,00.asp#fbid=cqXEUl_02PQ">Microsoft has promised Win8 will run faster than Win7 using the same hardware</A>. Early impressions are favorable but, is it really faster? The author of this article put the new OS through some standard performance tests and posted the results.