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Generational Windows Multicore Performance Tests
snydeq writes "Windows XP, Windows Vista, and (soon) Windows 7 all support SMP out of the box, but as InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy notes, 'experience has shown that multiprocessing across discrete CPUs is not the same thing as multiprocessing across integrated cores within the same CPU.' As such, Kennedy set out to stress the multiprocessing capabilities of Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 in dual-core and quad-core performance tests. The comprehensive, multiprocess workload tests were undertaken to document scalability, execution efficiency, and raw performance of workloads. 'What I found may surprise you,' Kennedy writes. 'Not only does Microsoft have a firm grasp of multicore tuning, but its scalability story promises to keep getting better with time. In other words, Windows Vista and Windows 7 are poised to reap ever greater performance benefits as Intel and AMD extend the number of cores in future editions of their processors.'"
Too much ads: Didn't read.
Great job linking to a five page story with on-top layered flash ads and new whole page ads for each page.
Like I'd give a shit about the page at all in that case.
No matter how Windows is coded and designed is the problem really the DRM or Microsofts implementation of it?
How do you know? Do you have the source code to Windows Vista?
Everyone I've seen that blames "DRM" for Vista being slow has no idea what they are talking about, and are just going "Vista has DRM and is slow, therefore it must be slow because of DRM".
Correlation is not causation people!
Well, what might surprise you is that XP is still faster than either one, and will only be surpassed by windows 7 when you have 32 cores or so. So they made it faster for 32 core machines to the detriment of single -> 31 core machines. That is surprising. Or as the article later suggests is due to other things in vista & 7 that increases the amount of stuff it has to do per transaction.
Its a shame really, it sounded like it was going to be a really positive article. Everyone else has had mostly positive reviews of windows 7. But this one does give me pause about eventually upgrading from XP.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
interesting. I have tried to get a friends install working before, and found it incredibly frustrating. I also tried installing it myself but I could never get it to boot after install. Tried various discs, assumed that it didn't like some of my hardware. You may be lucky and have a computer which it is fine with. I have met many people who have had similar experiences as I, but I suppose my friends and I could just be unlucky.
I have never used Vista Home Basic but I know for a fact that Vista Home Premium does indeed include a telnet client. It is not installed by default but it can be installed of of the installation DVD by selecting it in the Turn Windows Features on or off panel.
Vista Home Premium certainly does not require the user to have administrative privileges to watch a DVD (or any other video for that matter.) You were probably using a player that was written with the (bad) assumption that the user would have administrative rights. Older versions of PowerDVD and WinDVD are especially bad about this. Try using something like VLC or Windows Media Player instead.
It is true that Vista Home Basic and Home Premium cannot join a domain but how many home users actually need to have their own personal systems joined to a corporate domain? Especially since systems can still access some domain resources even if they aren't joined to a domain as long as proper credentials are provided. If you really need to be able to join a system to a domain then you should consider using Vista Business or if you need to join a domain and Windows Media Center then perhaps Vista Ultimate.
Oops... My bad. It's been a long time since I offered my high-end hardware in sacrifice to the Windows gods.
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How does it know to open Excel when I double click that .xls file. .doc file. .mdb file.
How does it know to open Word when I double click that
How does it know to open Access when I double click that
So THAT'S why Vista is so slow ... every application on your system is preloaded and running all the time, just in case a user wants to DO SOMETHING.
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Vista SP1 has better performance than XP SP2 and that is a fact. You can make up whatever bullshit stories and believe nameless morons from tiny 3rd world countries, but that doesn't change reality.
You are jealous of Microsoft's success, you are a troll, you are a zealot and you are a fucking idiot.
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