Microsoft is improving Office startup speed with a new feature called "Startup Boost". The feature will optimize performance and load-time of Office applications. Startup Boost will first roll out to ...

If you've been using Microsoft Word and find it to be a bit sluggish, especially when trying to start the program, well, it's not just your imagination. Fortunately, Word users will see a change to ...

Back in September 2024, Microsoft shared a helpful guide to help users improve the startup performance on Windows. Startup or load time performance can be a problem for Office apps, too, and to help ...

TL;DR: Microsoft will introduce a Startup Boost feature for Word to reduce load times by preloading the app shortly after system boot. This background task improves performance by keeping Word in a ...