Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook

Justin writes "Many in the industry are counting on Windows 7 to bring the netbook market to the next level. Having netbook manufacturers ship netbooks with 7+ year old Windows XP pre-installed surely deterred some from joining the ranks of households with the small, light and portable netbooks. It seems Microsoft has addressed most of the pitfalls of Windows Vista on a netbook by increasing battery life and performance to be very close to that of the lighter-weight Windows XP. Legit Reviews has the full scoop of battery life and performance tests pitting Windows 7 against Windows XP on the ASUS Eee PC 1005HA Netbook." I'd like to see a follow-up with a few different Netbook-friendly Linux distros, too.

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Re:My Anecdotal Evidence

[Benanov]

No, it's definitely Adobe's problem. Flash is terrible; everyone I know is just too dumb to try living without it.

Re:Lighter weight XP???

[morcego]

Isn't "Slackware" a slang, meaning "My time is worth no more than US$ 0.01/hour, which is why I can waste it so" ?

Slackware is great if you want to know HOW Linux works. Otherwise, it is just a waste of time.

(For reference: I don't use either Ubuntu or Slackware)

Re:So what?

[morcego]

Internet Explorer's Protected stuff (which not one of the competitors has)

Don't you mean "which not one of the competitors NEED" ?

The main reason IE needs that is because it is so integrated into the O.S.

Re:Lighter weight XP???

[morcego]

Ok, I will take the bait.

Pray tell me how is Slackware a time saver when compared to, lets say, RedHat Enterprise 5.

Please consider you need to manage 40+ servers running it.

On a second exercise, compare it to Ubuntu running on 40+ workstations (regular, non-geek users, like accounting, PCP, HR etc).