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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.'"
For their next world record, they'll point out that Windows 7 is now 50% faster to uninstall and go back to XP.
Idiot. I haven't had to go to the CLI at ALL in the past month. ONCE in the past year, and that was to do something just as simple in the GUI. It just so happens that sudo apt-get install is faster than opening Synaptic and searching when you want to install something. I'd tell you to stop talking out of your ass, but I'm not certain you even know where it is.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
I can remember back when I ran Windows, I didn't see anything wrong with all those reboots, either. Now that I've gone over to Linux, I'm finding it harder and harder to remember why I put up with it. However, it's your computer, not mine, and you're the one who has to use it. If you're happy with Windows and don't mind all of those (to me, at least) inconveniences, there's no reason to change.
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Usually, I leave the computer on, but sometimes I need to reboot, because the machine get slow, memory is used up and it start to swap. I avoid doing it because it take the machine 5 minutes to go down and 2 minutes to start. Compare that to 20 seconds to go down and 20 seconds to boot for my portable with Ubuntu.
There is the explanation for the shutdown benchmark.
I've never had an update break anything before - see how much like "lalala I'm not listening" anecdotal evidence can sound?
Also, the troll in Three Billy Goats Gruff was greedy and stupid. Nobody need ever have known if he'd just eaten the first goat and left it at that. In the light of that moral, which isn't the one children seem to draw from it, I'm eating the first goat... troll... whatever... The point is, I called the troll out on his blatant disregard for facts, no need for flaming.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
Hint: you just replied to a fellow freetard.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
I have been programming for some 32 years now and seen all kinds of OS.
Microsoft had their take on the GUI OS nailed at service pack 6 of Windows NT 4 - minimal memory leaks and it would stay up for weeks.
Their business model of new product to keep the windows druggies hooked is what has produced newer iterations of this same tired and creeky OS.
Can you believe it can not do threading properly - where is the quad core support for my twin-CPU system ?
Linux GUI still feels like design by committee and Mac OS X is not mainstream as it is tied to a tightly controlled hardware configuration.
At present there are no OS with the correct technical approach.
What is needed is fresh eyes - new university grads. that have not been indoctrinated with the outdated 50's OS crap people involved in the creation of modern OS have been fed.
OS design needs to be revisited so we can all benefit from the improvements in multi-core and multiple CPU and their ability to process data, RAM availability and hard drive access and capacity.
Microsoft, all I want you for is to run games - ( bootable DirectX 11 DVD version anyone ? ) in the same way my child uses wax crayons on paper.
After that I will go back to my OS X Macintoshes until someone produces an OS that is up to the job.
>>Hmph.. No comments that even remotely imply having RTFA'd, but sure enough there's an "astroturfing"-tag. Classy..
Did you bother reading the article?
Quote:
"Although the look of Windows 7 may seem to be nothing more than some polish applied liberally to the Vista Aero theme, make no mistake: this is a full replacement operating system, and more than just 'Vista done right'. From driver support to multitouch groundwork for the future, from better battery management to the most easy-to-use interface Microsoft has ever had, Windows 7 is hardly half-baked."
It's pure shilling for Microsoft.