Is Windows 7 Faster Or Just Smarter?

Barence writes "The Windows 7 unveiling garnered largely positive coverage, with many hands-on testers praising it for being faster than Vista. But is it actually? To find out, this blogger ran a suite of benchmarks to see just how much quicker Windows 7 really is — and the results weren't quite what he expected. 'The actual performance gap between Vista and Windows 7 is ... nada. Absolutely nothing. Our Office benchmarks and video encoding tests complete in precisely the same time regardless of which OS is installed. [...] It's tempting to see this as a bit of a con. They've sped up the front end so it feels like you're getting more done, but in terms of real productivity it's no better than Vista."

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Re:Trick Question

[Actually, I do RTFA]

Well, only the wife beating question is really posing a false dilemma. The article, your question about Linux being awesome, your IE 7 question all have a "neither" valid response. The Windows 7 devs dining on flesh is a push-poll type question, and so outragous no one would belive it, but hardly has a trap built into the answers. I can explain how I can afford not to use Linux for certain applications.

However, only one question really sets the trap, the Balmer/wife-beating question. That's because only that question is crafted so that the correct response (assuming Balmer has never beaten his wife) of "no" is misinterperted.