Did the Netbook Improve Windows 7's Performance?

Arnie87 writes "One Microsoft Way has an interesting article suggesting that the reason Microsoft is focusing so much on speed with Windows 7 is the whopping sales of netbooks. The article concludes by saying: 'If you plan on adopting Windows 7, you have the netbook to be thankful for, because Vista's successor would be a very different beast if Microsoft had less motivation to pursue performance.'"

Comments

Why is this bad news?

[FranTaylor]

Nothing is going to get me to stop using Linux, and if all of this competition means that Windows is getting better, well bully. I seriously would not mind if everyone stopped asking me to fix their computer for them.

Re:Why is this bad news?

[Celc]

The others asking you for help problem lies with people not getting better.

... that and you obviously aren't unplesant enough for them to be scared of asking you, work on that it helps.

Re:Why is this bad news?

[martin-boundary]

They really need to get cracking with Moore's law for people. My boss has been stuck at 4.77Mhz for at least twenty years now.

Re:Why is this bad news?

[dangitman]

They really need to get cracking with Moore's law for people. My boss has been stuck at 4.77Mhz for at least twenty years now.

Whoa. That's seriously fast for a boss. Did you overclock him or something?

Re:Or maybe you're pulling that from your ass

[Gerzel]

Vista uswers were simply not ready for...

Darned users! Why can't they get off their rears and make themselves ready for MS's products?

Should MS have to do all the work of marketing, programming, and figuring out what these "users" want?

Users should what what MS provides when MS wants to provide it!

makes sense

[Tumbleweed]

Microsoft will *always* improve their products. As the very last resort.

Psion

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks, Psion.

Re:Bloat

[Kreigaffe]

Does that include a red paint job? Everyone knows the red ones are faster.

Re:Or maybe you're pulling that from your ass

[MMInterface]

What makes you think that the people complaining about backwards compatibility are the same people who complained about the Windows security model?

The fact that many people have complained about both in the same post.

Re:Intense Rant: Don't fucking write it there

[danbert8]

Can I add 4?

4) I don't want your fucking shortcuts placed all over the fucking place. I don't want it on my desktop, my quick launch bar, and in the start menu. Even worse, don't reinsert your fucking desktop icon after installing updates (I'm looking straight at you Adobe!).

Footnote:
Adobe, there is no reason to have a shortcut to Adobe Reader anyway, for it is absolutely fucking useless to open the application by any means other than opening a pdf file. I do not want your icon on my desktop, and if I delete your icon, I do NOT give you permission to put it back on an update.

Microsoft, while I'm ranting... I'm glad you think that Microsoft applications are above my preferences. Apparently my custom system font is not up to the high standards of Microsoft Office, and thus you ignore what I want and force me to conform to what you think is right.

Re:Or maybe you're pulling that from your ass

[orasio]

No way. A real "OSS mujahadeen", or, as we like to call ourselves, a real bearded Saint of the Church of Emacs, doesn't run Windows apps, so could not complain about backwards compatibility.

In fact, right now most of us don't complain about Windows anymore, we are too busy trying to get our bios-less laptops to work with the latest version of Gnewsense