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Windows 7 Memory Usage Critic Outed As Fraud
A few days ago, we ran word of a report alleging that Windows 7 consumed more memory than it should, based on a report from Devil Mountain Software; a followup post linked to Ars Technica's robust deconstruction of that claim. Now the story gets weird: Fred Flowers writes The original story quoted the company's CTO, Craig Barth on the issue. Now, InfoWorld editor in chief Eric Knorr has still more to add. From Knorr's blog at InfoWorld.com: 'On Friday, Feb. 19, we discovered that one of our contributors, Randall C. Kennedy, had been misrepresenting himself to other media organizations as Craig Barth, CTO of Devil Mountain Software (aka exo.performance.network), in interviews for a number of stories regarding Windows and other Microsoft software topics. ... There is no Craig Barth.' Knorr's post goes on to say that Kennedy has been fired from his blogging gig at InfoWorld over this 'serious breach of trust,' and that his blog will be removed."
No, Vista mostly looked badly because it required obscene amounts of resources and still ran slow as shit.
It's a lot better than Linux's su and sudo alternatives. With su you give full control over the root account, with sudo you need to write it every time you require root account. UAC is actually a lot better than what there is available for linux, in desktop use
Bullshit. Linux only makes you use sudo / su when you're doing something worthy of administrator privileges - such as installing updates to the system. UAC nags you just about every time you click the mouse - want to run a virus scan? You need to click a UAC box. Want to open Word? You need to click a UAC box. Putting in UAC for the important things would be fine, but what people are annoyed with is that it nags you with a UAC box about EVERYTHING. That's why the first thing I do on a clean install of Windows is turn UAC off. I've rarely been annoyed by sudo when using Linux (Linux on my laptop, Win 7 on the desktop), but I've always been annoyed by it in Windows.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
It absolutely does not nag you about everything - the only reason you might think this is because you have got used running everything in Windows without asking you permission for admin level tasks.
Word is an exaggeration, but it nags CONSTANTLY. There's a reason everyone hates UAC, and it's not because of extra security - it's because it nags over all sorts of minor things. It's like Clippy only for all of Windows instead of just Office.
I think your just having to eat your words about win7, because it's a fucking good OS. it runs faster then vista or winxp, they've dropped the candy land fucked up theme and given it a slick interface.
Who the hell are you talking to? I love Windows 7 and I've said it since the beta came out. I just hate UAC.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
I do the same tasks in Windows as I do in Linux (well, I also game in Windows or else I'd only use Linux) - you get prompted far, far less in Linux.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
Yes. Unfortunately that "sophistication" ends up creating something that is
unecessarily complex and ends up annoying the end users so badly that they
feel the need to turn security features off. If they don't, some application
vendor will tell them to turn the crap off.
"That crowd" is still picking up after Microsoft's engineering debacles.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
funny that is exactly what happened between OS X releases 10.2, 10.3 10.4, and 10.5 though the amount of speed increase was slightly less.
on linux it varies between distro's, and gui uses.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
For me the problem didn't have anything to do with drivers. They all worked fine.
For me the problem was that Microsoft lied to the hardware makers, told them 512 MB wouldn't run Aero but would still be sufficient to run Vista, and my brother ended-up with a 512 MB machine that ran slower than his old XP machine on only 128 megabytes, and suffered severe hard drive thrashing.
Depending on your viewpoint, the software was either vastly bloated because it needed 1024 to run properly (in contrast the Mac OS released that same year ran great on only 256 MB) - or else the software was fine but MS was guilty of lying about the hardware specs.
And yes the UAC was annoying:
"Do I have permission to install Opera Browser?"
"Yes." "Sorry you lack sufficient privileges. Installation failed at 90%."
Grrr.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
The underlying reality is, the computer market is maturing. From a customer point of view, windows advertising is now windows blah blah blah, this version blah blah blah, next version blah blah blah. They just don't care, they use what came with the machine, with absolutely no interest in upgrading and will stick with it until the machine dies. When their next machine arrives if it doesn't have an OS they will simply install they one they already have, if it does have an OS already installed they will use the installed OS.
Right now all that windows advertising is basically throwing money away, no one cares and no one believes it (especially since M$ stuck it to future generations of computers users with overheating xboxes and lying about it). For them to already start promoting windows 8 just they can stick everyone with two years operating system upgrades just kills of any opportunity for the slim chance of windows 7 upgrades.
For me, vista came with the machine but it sucked so hard (the very first unpatched version) I replaced it with XP from the dead machine (high powered notebooks eventually cook themselves) it replaced, chances for upgrade after than zero, chances for cross grade, well, all my machines are dual boot, one partition for games and the other to keep that one working, for backups, for real security and for work.
Windows two decades more advanced than Linux, do you have any idea how stupid that sounds to the computer geek/nerd crowd at slashdot, 20 whole years, that's like 1990, do you have any idea at all what computers and software was like in 1990, talk about a marketdroid drone bot, oh my ;D (ohh yeah we believe).
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Sure am glad I have a gas guzzler. I paid for that full tank of gas I want to use it.
Tell me again why vista/win7 is supperior to XP? Just because vista/win7 consume more system resources does not mean the end user gets anything out of it.
Seems to me people are sending their money to Redmond for no good reason.
Now go ahead an tell me I'm a luddite because I don't buy everything that msft shills tell me to buy.
If you know people that are getting UAC prompts all the time, you need to get with them and figure out exactly why. That shouldn't happen.
Yea, no one should be using Vista - I wouldn't even wish that on my enemies! =D
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
kinda like the global warming people.
Yeah, you really needed to tack that on there. Way to be an ass.
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