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.'"

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Re:Skipping this as well?

[Jugalator]

I already did, to the most pleasant *nix system I've used yet, long time "ready for the desktop". OS X. :) I'll be damned if I have never before used an distribution providing such a merge of geeky features and usability and in general lack of fuss.

If I were 10 years younger now, I'd probably write annoyed posts on how Windows 7 is copying OS X features like the Dock, but nowadays I can't even be bothered.

I left that mess that's called Windows as for my home computing needs to get my work done more efficiently, and that's that. I've used Windows since 3.1, but Vista, and the lack of vision MS is still showing after that OS, was enough. That Apple is focusing on speed and not features on Snow Leopard is speaking volumes about the difference in mentality compared to the offices in Redmond.