Comments on: Windows 7: faster or just smarter?

By: Zaza

Zaza — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:04:37 +0000

what are we trying to save here.. the company sucks, the whole policy sucks, the only thing that’s working good for microsoft today is Microsoft Office. by the time Google finishes their Chrome OS, the vista people will get slaughtered! I’d like to indicate to Vista’s terrible performance in handling file transfers, because I think Vista is the worst OS I have encountered so far when it comes to moving big files. I have had some downloaded movies, in avi format where I needed to copy around 12 gigs of them, and vista took somewhere around 45min to 1 hour to transfer to external USB Hard Drive! I run a Duo 2 core platform, an intel 2.4Ghz each. if that’s not an ABORTION, then I wonder what is!

By: Gavin H

Gavin H — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:06:07 +0000

I sorry if I seem a little dis-hearted about Windows 7 but I feel that it really isnt going to sort out any of the issues people have with Vista like RAID drive problems and that.

What I mean is that I have looked at the required specs for 7 and I just cant get over the fact that it requires more RAM and Graphics memory than basic Vista!!! What versions of Vista requires at least 128MB ram on the GPU! I get some many people saying to me XP is better and I dont agree!! I have spent hours maybe days configuring Vista and I doubt that u would find a better OS for computers for a while!

So u havent got total system control!!! But the features or so much more than that, like backwards compatibility(that works) and some of the widest selection of changeable settings since….. Well ever!

If any one say that u can compare Vista to XP then they need their head examied! The.y are totally different Though u could compare Vista to Windows 7! XP was great for home users and gamers but for engineers and businesses, then you need Vista and alot of time to configure the software and hardware (Which I have done and got it perfect)!!

I just feel that Windows Vista is being attacked for no reason what so ever!!!

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By: Mark Barnes

Mark Barnes — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:01:53 +0000

The problem is however, is that this is a beta release. Yes, it may not be fully optimised but then again it also free of all the bloat that will be eventually applied as it approaches it’s release date. I’m not talking about application bloat here but kernel level stuff where they add unecessary layers of well.. layers in an attempt to make the OS more of a managed code exercise. So yes, it looks all fancy on a projecter presentation where this layer does this and that other layer must talk to this layer to get this done but in reality we’ll just be shouting and screaming about how slow it is once its made available to the public as a finalised release.

When will they ever learn – to me, XP was the crowning pinnacle of their operating systems and from what I can see they are still in a rapid nose down free fall heading towards a big crash.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:49:52 +0000

i’m more interested in what microsoft are doing about bugs errors and general stupidity in vista.. i mean .. it’s all neat and fun that the new windows will be faster, will have a new taskbar and a touch-screen option but what about problems like trying to play an mp3 playlist in winamp without selecting each mp3 and tinkering with the security settings to give full control to the ‘everyone’ group (and here i’m speaking for casual users who are not as adept at IT as some people , i mean this little issue with the mp3’s might have a solution in vista but i ca’n find it and if i can’t then there will be others) so all in all what will this new windows do about the small but frustrating problems.. like sound vanishing after a simple restart and then coming back like magic after the third restart??

By: u64

u64 — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:37:16 +0000

Microsoft has the resources to really build an ok Windows, but they
keep choosing not to. For MS to have a chance it must release
Windows2009, a Windows that doesnt suck. at. all. And use
the good known security model from BSD and Linux to get rid
of AntiVirus slow-ware.

Ripping out junk from XP with nLite proves that underneath there’s
almost something of value. And tweaking it properly reveal a
good gaming platform.

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Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:52:30 +0000

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By: Linda W

Linda W — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:29:05 +0000

I take exception at your claim that your benchmarks run the same on “Any” OS — when you deliberately exclude XP.

From what I glean in the content — XP is about 10-18% faster than Win7.

Or comparatively, Win7 is about 11-22% slower.

Applications *should* run about the same regardless of the OS — but that wasn’t the case — compare Win7 to WinXP-SP3. SP3 was faster than SP2 or SP1 — but comparable with WinXP(0). Win7 shows it’s done nothing for applications — only it’s own interface so, Win7 is still slowing down applications by about 15% overall…

By: Cliff

Cliff — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:43:09 +0000

Darien quotes Tim Danton as saying, “Vista was never this nippy. You press on an icon and it leaps into action. . . . I can?t remember using any new OS that was this quick.?

Gosh, I guess neither of them has used a Mac. My Macbook is a year old, and it is still as snappy as when I bought it: I click on things and they instantly pop up. In contrast, everyone I know who gets a Windows machine first has to bog it down with anti-virus stuff running, but their machine seems to be polluted with all kinds of garbage over the first year of use to the point where it ends up running like a pig.

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