Windows 7 Benchmarks Show Little Improvement On Vista 369
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy examines Windows 7 from the kernel up, subjecting the 'pre-beta' to a battery of benchmarks to find any signs that the OS will be faster, more responsive, and less resource-intensive than the bloated Vista, as Microsoft suggests. Identical thread counts at the kernel level suggest to Kennedy that Windows 7 is a 'minor point-type of release, as opposed to a major update or rewrite.' Memory footprint for the kernel proved eerily similar to that of Vista as well. 'In fact, as I worked my way through the process lists of the two operating systems, I was struck by the extent of the similarities,' Kennedy writes, before discussing the results of a nine-way workload test scenario he performed on Windows 7 — the same scenario that showed Vista was 40 percent slower than Windows XP. 'In a nutshell, Windows 7 M3 is a virtual twin of Vista when it comes to performance,' Kennedy concludes. 'In other words, Microsoft's follow-up to its most unpopular OS release since Windows Me threatens to deliver zero measurable performance benefits while introducing new and potentially crippling compatibility issues.'"
Sheer genius (Score:5, Funny)
not only is it a dupe, but the original article is still on the front page. Way to go.
Perfect (Score:5, Funny)
Windows 7 is just a rehash of a just released OS, and this article is a rehash of a just released article. There's so much synchronicity, Sting is singing in the background.
Re:Sheer genius (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sheer genius (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Perfect (Score:5, Funny)
Not windows 7 but.. (Score:5, Funny)
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So, in other words.... (Score:5, Funny)
If it works on Vista it'll work on W7.
So, in essence, Windows 7 represents a significant name change from Vista.
Re:Sheer genius (Score:5, Funny)
Proof yet again that in addition to kdawson not "editing" Slashdot, he/she/it doesn't even read it.
Honestly, how would you replace him/her/it with a shell script that performed that badly? You'd have to write it in FORTRAN, blindfolded, while tripping on mescaline.
Re:Sheer genius (Score:2, Funny)
It's an intentional dupe. Look:
from the second-verse-same-as-the-first dept.
Re:Sheer genius (Score:3, Funny)
Re:so? (Score:5, Funny)
In my generation, people used TeX and troff and thanked their lucky stars that they didn't have to type their PhD dissertations on a type-writer.
My honors project report was submitted in long-hand.
Re:so? (Score:5, Funny)
Linux is like the Mooncup [today.com]: a nice idea, but messy and not for the squeamish. In fact, Linux can be likened to a Mooncup-using redhaired hippie girlfriend who lives in a house in the country she built herself from twigs and has very strong ideas on how everything should be and has all her original body hair. The sex is fantastic, but only if she thinks the astrological conditions are perfect. And the house has a hand-dug latrine, so she's propped a toilet bowl on top and thinks that's "user friendliness."
Windows, however, is like a nice normal bottle-blonde girlfriend who has a proper office job and dresses cleanly from Primark and has a sweet smile and lives in a proper bedsit and knows everyone and how to act normally and is accepted in society. She gets headaches a lot and fits of rage where she smashes everything and there's an odd smell of decaying human flesh coming from the drains and the toilet backs up every now and then filling the entire block with sewage and bits of bodies, but this is entirely normal and nothing to worry about.
Re:so? (Score:5, Funny)
And our numeral system didn't even have a 0. Damn you youngins and your fancy numbers.
Slashdot on Other Things... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sheer genius (Score:2, Funny)
Which will be released as "Windows Mojave"?
Because people will desert it?