Microsoft: Windows 7 to boost solid-state drives

From CNET News -

In a WinHEC 2008 conference abstract titled "Windows 7 Enhancements for Solid-State Drives," Microsoft states that "PC systems that have solid-state drives (SSDs) are shipping in increasing volumes" and that it is planning "Windows enhancements that take advantage of the latest updates to standardized command sets, such as ATA."

In other words, Windows 7 will be able to recognize a SSD drive and act accordingly. For example, it can improve the speed that SSDs write to disk by using certain ATA commands. ATA is the most popular data transfer standard for PC storage drives such as Serial ATA, or SATA hard drives. Most new drives, including new SSDs, use the SATA-2 standard.