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 ...

Microsoft is planning to improve the startup speed of its Office apps, starting with Word in May. The launch times of Office apps will improve thanks to a new scheduled task that will run silently ...

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 ...