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Windows 7 Benchmarks Show Little Improvement On Vista
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy examines Windows 7 from the kernel up, subjecting the 'pre-beta' to a battery of benchmarks to find any signs that the OS will be faster, more responsive, and less resource-intensive than the bloated Vista, as Microsoft suggests. Identical thread counts at the kernel level suggest to Kennedy that Windows 7 is a 'minor point-type of release, as opposed to a major update or rewrite.' Memory footprint for the kernel proved eerily similar to that of Vista as well. 'In fact, as I worked my way through the process lists of the two operating systems, I was struck by the extent of the similarities,' Kennedy writes, before discussing the results of a nine-way workload test scenario he performed on Windows 7 — the same scenario that showed Vista was 40 percent slower than Windows XP. 'In a nutshell, Windows 7 M3 is a virtual twin of Vista when it comes to performance,' Kennedy concludes. 'In other words, Microsoft's follow-up to its most unpopular OS release since Windows Me threatens to deliver zero measurable performance benefits while introducing new and potentially crippling compatibility issues.'"
Because all your software and hardware will work just as well won't it? Oh wait, no it won't.
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Vista ME
No. Try again. -1^2 != -1 (same for -inf).
Did you go to school?
Yes, because things like improved startup time, increased battery life etc are not measurable right?
Improved startup time only matters in an OS you have to reboot multiple times per day.
Increased battery life can be obtained on Microsoft's previous product, Windows XP, by tweaking a few settings. Then again, from what I hear, Mac OS X pretty much kicks everyone else's ass on battery life. Recent Linux distros aren't half bad either.
And when did Microsoft claim otherwise?
Microsoft previously claimed that the Windows 7 kernel would be a major rewrite. Sorry, no more MSFT stock options this year for you.
Of course, these articles purposely ignore all the UI and usability improvements the very same mags covered earlier, which make a very visible difference in daily use.
Windows users don't like UI improvements. They use Windows because it came with the computer and that's what they know. That's why Vista isn't selling. That's why people are doing acrobatics to get XP onto new machines. Get it through your thick skull, softie. And by 'usability improvements' I assume you mean backing out of changes in Vista that people particularly hated.
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Why can't I get Vista to crash and run slow like you can?
Nobody cares about Australia, especially since men @ werk quit playin on the radio
I just recently bought a new quad-core box w/ 4GB of RAM, high end video, the works, pre-installed with Vista.
So you bought a Vendor PC. With all of the assorted pre-installed performance-hampering junk that always comes with that.
Right. You can totally be taken seriously.