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Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista
PLSQL Guy writes "Tests of the Windows 7 Release Candidate in a PC World Test Center found that while Windows 7 was slightly faster on our WorldBench 6 suite, the differences may be barely noticeable to users. The PCs tested were slightly faster when running Windows 7, but in no case was the overall improvement greater than 5 percent, considered to be a threshold for when an actual performance change is noticeable to the average user. One of the major complaints about Windows Vista was the fact that it was consistently slower than Windows XP. If Windows 7 can't significantly improve that situation, what chance does it have to convince people to move away from Windows XP?"
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Vista SP3 PLUS Marketing hype PLUS Lipstick on a Pig... doesn't make it much faster.
My guess is that XP will live a long long while on Netbooks at least.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Windows 7, Windows 8, How long do we have to wait untill Windows 2000?
LiFe iS bEAuTiFul
I want to be excited about Windows 7, and I don't need to hear this nonsense. I want hype. I thrive on it, and it makes me want to get up in the morning. I'm just going to pretend like I didn't read this.
Windows 7 is CASTRATED APPEASEMENT to soy latte-sipping girly-men who wish they owned a Mac. We want a REAL operating system. An operating system that PERSONIFIES America's INDUSTRIAL MIGHT. That makes you feel AWE at the MAJESTY of the progress of its operation. VISTA is a monument to everything that makes us the country we are!
Like Chrysler, like Hummer, like Edsel - "Vista" is a name that will be remembered as the greatest operating system in Microsoft's history.
Just Say "No" To Seven -
SAVE VISTA!
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We want ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE to join this group. So far we have nearly 30. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS!
"I fully support this initiative. My computer business employs 200 people; the best possible thing for it is to make sure Vista continues and goes forward." - M. Shuttleworth, London
"I can't tell you how much Vista has done for my business. So many people depend on it." - S. Jobs, Cupertino
"Vista is the one thing that will keep people seeking out and using systems that are at the forefront of technology. It's been the best thing for all of us." - L. Torvalds, Portland.
"I'm ... I'm touched. *sob* I didn't think anyone cared. You guys. Developers! *sob*" - S. Ballmer, Seattle.
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The true test will be if it can copy 16 1kb files from our server to my workstation in under 3 hours.
Channeling Balmer here, forgive me.
Listen here, you pud-pulling jagoffs. We went and called it 7. Not R2, not Vista 1.5, not any motherfucking jungle cat name. No. It's 7! This means it's a completely different operating system, you fucking cunts. What's that, you say? The kernel on Vista is 6.0 and 7 is only 6.1? Security? Get over here. I want you to put on your dick-stomping boots and make this smart-ass' pride look like a waffle. Get the fuck out. Now as for the rest of you pole-smoking faggots, get with the story. 7 is what's it. It's the only game in town. Anything else is just stone age barbarism, may as well be using an abacus. Now I don't care if we have to throw in an extra blade and two aloe strips but this is going to be the biggest Windows launch ever or so help me, you better hope you have all your fucking chairs hidden.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Windows XP can't be beat because the X in XP stands for XTREME!!!!
Dude, this is slashdot. Didn't you know that you should be able to run everything you'll ever need on that old-ass Pentium II with 64MB RAM in your basement? I mean, Linux runs fine on there, so why shouldn't everything else ever made? Graphical enhancements are entirely unnecessary. And any "improved feature set" provided by Microsoft is clearly going to be inferior to the way some ancient system did it 15 years ago.
Yes. I'm being sarcastic.
Joe will ogle Sarah and as a result vote for John:)
We could even use the infrastructure that is already in place to register people who do public technical support for Windows users...
You should check all three against Windows 95. You'll be shocked at what a scorcher Windows 95 is compared to those bloated pigs the illegal monopolists keep trying to get me to pay for. I wasn't fooled the last 2 times.
Besides, you don't need multiple cores, more memory, bigger hard drives, faster internet. All that big hardware is for posers and Moore's Law devotees.
Joe: Hey! That's like a whole day. I could get like 5 sessions of Fighter Ultra Captain Kain in that time!
OMG. I just realized that I'm Joe.
Prov 9:8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.