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?"

Comments

Re:What else did we expect?

[Joe U]

No, Vista got slapped with the reputation for being a worthless piece of shite by, hmm, let's see, being a worthless piece of shite

You can't drag me back to XP. Vista is, by far, superior to XP.

Sorry, I'm happy running a x64 OS, where I can run all my developer tools and virtual machines and games and office on the same computer without having to dual boot or spend a week configuring things.

The only thing full of crap is the people who spout 'vista is bad' without actually using it.

Re:Weren't the earlier betas much faster?

[kokojie]

Um, I can assure you, DRM had very little to no effect on the performance of the OS