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Why Windows is Slow
hype7 writes "The New York Times is running an article on why they think Windows is so slow. They boil it down to one key factor - legacy support - and they hold up Apple as an example of a company willing to make hard decisions around legacy support in order to provide a better product. From the article: 'Windows is now so big and onerous because of the size of its code base, the size of its ecosystem and its insistence on compatibility with the legacy hardware and software, that it just slows everything down ... That's why a company like Apple has such an easier time of innovation.'"
This article was in a link in an article from yesterday!
-Sj53
Can we ban together and just refuse to comment on duplicate articles? I was hoping that the NY Times ran two similar articles in two days. Why hope.....
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So you go months without patching or driver updates?
AFAIK, XP requires reboots nearly every patch cycle, and at MOST those are monthly.
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I have a Powerbook and I have to say: OS X is pretty sluggish as well; that dreaded color wheel cursor sometimes hangs around for a long time for something as simple as switching applications. And it's not surprising: Mach and Apple's display architecture are not exactly low overhead.
I dual-boot a lot, so I get to compare Linux with other operating systems on the same hardware; in my experience, Linux with Gnome, KDE, or XFCE is considerably more responsive and efficient than either OS X or Windows. Also, in terms of innovation, I don't see much difference between the three systems: they have similar architectures, similar toolkits, and similar window systems at this point.
I didn't know Windows was slow.
On similar hardware it outperforms any other O/S i've seen doing the same tasks.
Try starting up KDE and launching OpenOffice.Org and tell me how it responds compared to Windows XP and MS Office.
Try starting up MacOSX and launching Office or OOo and let me know how it is compared to Windows XP.
Try checking email, browsing the web, watching movies/media/audio, and show me where the performance is better.
Find me even a company that can release this mammoth software with such huge software and hardware support in the same amount of time, while also releasing quality development tools and fighting several massive lawsuits requiring them to remake versions of their software.
Hey I don't really care for Windows much, I'm a Ubuntu and MacOSX person myself, but what is with the New York Times FUD'ing Microsoft lately? Maybe they should try to find something to write about that they actually have some knowledge of.... like best selling book lists or something.
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