32bit Win7 Vs. Vista Vs. XP 641
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes tested the latest Win7 build against XP and Vista and came to a surprising conclusion: Win7 performs better than the other 2 OSs in the vast majority of the 23 tasks tested. Even installation. 'Rather than publish a series of benchmark results for the three operating systems (something which Microsoft frowns upon for beta builds, not to mention the fact that the final numbers only really matter for the release candidate and RTM builds), I've decided to put Windows 7, Vista and XP head-to-head in a series of real-world tests...'" This review shows only a 1-2-3 ranking for each test, so there's no sense of the quantitative level of improvement.
Re:win7 rocks (Score:4, Funny)
A friend showed me build 7000 for the first time a few minutes ago.
It blue screens in kl1.sys and reboots the whole system every time he tries to register the Kapersky AV it nagged him to install.
I'm showing him Kubuntu 9.04 alpha 2 now, but I haven't found a way to show him a crash.
My benchmarking scheme (Score:3, Funny)
Windows Vista 3rd
Windows XP 2nd
Windows 7 1st
Windows 7 wins... it uses the least number of letters.
Re:Still making 32 bit? (Score:3, Funny)
It's like all the wackos out there want to stop using 8-bit and 16-bit processors [wikipedia.org] and replace them with Pentiums. I'll upgrade my toaster when they pry it from my cold, dead hands!
Re:Completely useless (Score:1, Funny)
It's a conspiracy! They're lying. They're lying because they hate you and all you stand for. Everyone is lying to you. I AM LYING TO YOU!!!
Re:I question the results. (Score:5, Funny)
Take results with a grain of salt
Salt is forbidden by the EULA......and my doctor.
Re:I question the results. (Score:5, Funny)
And they say Linux isn't ready for regular users.
The devil is in the details (Score:4, Funny)
Explain to me why this rates a +3 "Informative" mod when the poster tells us absolutely nothing more about his system, his applications, or how he uses his machine.
Re:It could be (Score:3, Funny)
UAC can be disabled (and in general, UAC only confirms things that would request confirmation in other OS, or at least priviledge elevation... yeah yeah i know, people say "but in Linux you only have to sudo ONCE!), you can do that in Windows too...just doesn't seem anyone realise you can elevate a Window or a terminal session instead of an operation...which is exactly how you'd do it elsewhere...)
Changing the control panel back to basic is in plain view. You go to the control panel, and at the top left you see "Classic View". You click it. Poof. Ok, that was soooo hard (and is exactly how it was in XP. It didn't even change!)
And Vista is pretty much as fast for games as XP, give or take very early driver issues. Fine, you lose 2 fps (if you have such a fast rig, you ARE using vsync, yes? So you don't lose anything anyhow?). But I'll still give you, it is slower... like 0.5%.
For older machines, you're right. Not that XP was any different back then though.
Lets face it: This time, the geeks wanted it to fail, regardless of how it was. If MS had released Windows 7 two years ago, the same misinformation barrage coupled with 2-3 legit issues would have happened... it just would have been like XP in the early 2000s...people would have had to be more creative in blasting it and would have had less actual anecdotal arguments.
Re:I question the results. (Score:4, Funny)
Of course it is, but the newbies have to suffer a reboot, only the elite get to keep their uptime even while updating graphics card drivers.