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Windows 7 RTM Reviewed & Benchmarked
An anonymous reader writes "The code is final, and CNet has reviewed the final version of Windows 7, with benchmarks to support the case that it's not only the fastest version of Windows to shut down, but also looks like 'the operating system that both Microsoft and its consumers have been waiting for.' The review continues: 'By fixing most of the perceived and real problems in Vista, Microsoft has laid the groundwork for the future of where Windows will go. Windows 7 presents a stable platform that can compete comfortably with OS X, while reassuring the world that Microsoft can still turn out a strong, useful operating system.'"
From installation to wipe in an average of ten days. A pioneering achievement.
As for the rest of this prerelease hype, I'll believe it when I see it.
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As the most useful thing any user can do with Windows is to shut it down, this is a critical benchmark of performance.
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
"'the operating system that both Microsoft and its consumers have been waiting for.'"
So it's Snow Leopard?
No, you still cannot copy it.
DNA is the ultimate spaghetti code.
I'm for _anything_ that gets more people to stop using IE6. :)
That's certainly an apt comparison, since most people that have or want DE50's think they look cool and work really awesome, but have no fucking idea what they're doing when using a gun. They feel this strange sense of smugness about the elite status their choice in firearm has afforded them, perhaps not having any idea that a boring old Casull 454 has more muzzle energy, or that the DE50 is utterly impractical for essentially any worhtwhile endeavour. They know that they spent way more money than other guns cost, but they don't realize that there's always something cheaper that does a better job.
Yet nothing else seems to have caught and held the affection of hollywood so effectively, so nothing else will suffice for the discriminating individuals that know nothing about firearms or marksmanship --- except that they are better than everyone else at both by virtue of their wise purchase.
I'm not sure you had any idea how good of an analogy you were making. Bravo! :)
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I found all the Need For Speed games to be mostly the same and not very fun. The Mario games have a little more variety and have been getting more interesting.