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Windows 7 Gaming Performance Tested
Timmus writes "Gamers holding onto Windows XP may not have to fear sluggish performance when Windows 7 debuts. While Windows Vista's gaming performance was pretty spotty at launch, the Windows 7 beta build seems to handle most games well. Firingsquad has tested the Windows 7 beta against Windows XP SP3 and Vista SP1 on midrange and high-end gaming PCs across 7 different games. While the beta stumbles in a couple of cases, overall it performs within a few percentage points of Windows XP, actually outrunning XP in multiple benchmarks."
Oh fuck you.
You won't ever write a blu-ray player yourself and you know it, you piece of shit.
Even if you did, you sure as hell aren't going to trust your own slapped together code to run alongside the kernel, are you?
That's the fucking worst strawman argument since "But I only download stuff I wouldn't buy anyway".
And it's your choice to run Windows or not. Just pop your blu-ray into your HDCP-compliant, blu-ray playing, Linux box.
The controversy with XP was mostly Windows 2000 owners and they didn't like XP's activation anti-piracy measure, mostly because they were buying one copy of 2000 and running it on multiple machines.
I'm not saying activation isn't a pain in the rear (it is) and that I don't revile it (I do), just that MS went that route and we've got to deal with it until MS finds a better way.
Personally, I (mostly) LOVE Windows 7 beta (don't get me wrong - I share that LOVE with Linux and MacOS X) at least Ultimate (the beta), which uncripples disk features in Vista Home Premium (yay, Linux dual boot with RAID). All the gripes I had about Vista seem to have been addressed, like the complexity of setting up networking and sharing. My only real gripe has been windows live (e.g. email program has to be downloaded with a windows live ID, which is intrusive).
XP->Vista did seem more an incremental upgrade, but MS is probably watching Apple do just that, which is why they tied DX10 into Vista (like how Apple ties in OpenGL updates with OS releases). The problem is, MS got greedy and wanted $200 - $450 for the retail versions that actually have value add (which means not Basic and to some extent Premium - in fact, Premium is somewhat a downgrade from XP Media Edition because there is some functionality crippling if you don't do an upgrade - see dynamic disks).