How? Any other office suite or program could do the same thing.

Related, long ago I replaced the windows shell with hl.exe, so my computer booted straight into Half Life rather than explorer. With my one core system, it was a noticeable improvement.

Lots of people keep a windows machine around for that one game that doesn't run on linux. Might make a come back!

You made me go back and read TFA, I don't think that's the case.

Where did you saw that?

Update: nowhere, xi was just making stuff up.

Many such cases.

I'm not sure what TFA or xi means, but any program you install can stay open in the background for quick launching. What makes you think microsoft has exclusive access to doing that?