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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.
They're running hardware tests. On a netbook. It's not going to tell them about which the better operating system is. This is some retarded shit.
Many in the industry are counting on Windows 7 to bring the netbook market to the next level.
[Citation needed] Who in "the industry" think this, exactly? Perhaps they mean bury it one level down, rather than take it to the "next level". Windows XP runs significantly slower on Netbooks, Vista 7 hasn't got a hope in hell of outperforming XP on a netbook. Smells like MS AstroTurfing to me....
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and using Linux instead of yet another attempt at a security system Microsoft patches on top of a poor base. I just love seeing how hardware vendors are also adding security elements in the CPU to block code from executing in data space. Just what the OS is supposed to do. Speaking of that, WTF is up with all the virtual machine stuff? Isn't the OS supposed to isolate application data and code from each other and provide a robust abstraction so applications run nicely with each other? Oh wait, Microsofts applications crash the OS so much and therefore crash other applications, you can't run a business system with more than one app running on one piece of hardware. So lets' virtualize them....
yes, Vista added some security to their broken system but it sucks deep down and Windows 7 just sucks less but it sucks far more than Linux or the other *nix based systems. Bunches of Windows users are becoming "switchers" even though there's a premium in price to be paid for the Mac. They're driven away because Windows sucks deeply no matter the version and marketing can't change that.
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This is the greatest piece of most obvious non-informational comment I have ever read on slashdot!! Seriously, why dignify that statement by replying and that too sooo many things. Anyone who reads slashdot knows you have to upgrade for all of the above mentioned reasons.