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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.'"
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.
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!
Does that include a red paint job? Everyone knows the red ones are faster.
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
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.
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