How Vista Mistakes Changed Windows 7 Development 483
snydeq writes "For the past several months, Microsoft has engaged in an extended public mea culpa about Vista, holding a series of press interviews to explain how the company's Vista mistakes changed the development process of Windows 7. Chief among these changes was the determination to 'define a feature set early on' and only share that feature set with partners and customers when the company is confident they will be incorporated into the final OS. And to solve PC-compatibility issues, Microsoft has said all versions of Windows 7 will run even on low-cost netbooks. Moreover, Microsoft reiterated that the beta of Windows 7 that is now available is already feature-complete, although its final release to business customers isn't expected until November." As a data point for how well this has all worked out in practice, reader The other A.N.Other recommends a ZDNet article describing rough benchmarks for three versions of Windows 7 against Vista and XP. In particular, Win-7 build 7048 (64-bit) vs. Win-7 build 7000 (32-bit and 64-bit) vs. Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3 were tested on both high-end and low-end hardware. The conclusions: Windows 7 is, overall, faster than both Vista and XP. As Windows 7 progresses, it's getting faster (or at least the 64-bit editions are). On a higher-spec system, 64-bit is best. On a lower-spec system, 32-bit is best.
Will run on netbooks or drag? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let's see it against Ubuntu 9.04 (Score:5, Funny)
Well, instead of throwing a chair at you, I've decided to take your challenge! I had Netcraft test our Microsoft Office benchmark suite with Office 2007 running under Wine on Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit and under the latest 64-bit build of Windows 7.
Unsurprisingly, Windows 7 wins by a longshot! Ha! *throws chair* I'm gonna fscking KILL Mark Shuttleworth! Muahahahaha!
-- Steve Ballmer
Re:Let's see it against Ubuntu 9.04 (Score:5, Funny)
Can't wait for those results!
Let's pitch those against my Gentoo. Next month, when I'm done with the compiling.
Re:release date (Score:1, Funny)
Done with the OS X.6 already! Why don't they call it OS XI? Or OS Y? Or iOS?
At least Ubuntu has cute names I can rely on!
Such as, Tiger, Panther, and Snow Leopard?
Re:Captain Obvious descends (Score:3, Funny)
Nu uh. Vista was the feature that caused Windows 7 development. That's why Windows 9 will be the bestest windows evaaaaaah!!!
Re:Captain Obvious descends (Score:1, Funny)
So Vista is the broken condom that resulted in the bastard child....
OK, so we fucked up. It's good now, really! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:release date (Score:2, Funny)
OS 10.8 - Schnookums
OS 10.9 - Mr. Fluffles
OS 11 - Richard Scarry
Re:release date (Score:2, Funny)
Fool me 7 times.... (Score:4, Funny)
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 7 or 8 times, shame on me ;-)
Re:release date (Score:5, Funny)
At least Ubuntu has cute names I can rely on!
Yea, they should come up with a naming convention that empathizes cats to jump on the LoLcats bandwagon. Everyone loves cats!
OS 10.7: Garfield Y/N?
He didn't test anything! (Score:4, Funny)
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5. Move 2.5GB files - Move 2.5GB of mixed size files (ranging from 1MB to 100MB) from one hard drive to another
6. Network transfer 100MB files - Move 100MB of JPEG files from test machine to NAS device
7. Network transfer 2.5GB files - Move 2.5GB of mixed size files (ranging from 1MB to 100MB) from test machine to NAS device
8. Move 100MB files under load - Move 100MB of JPEG files from one hard drive to another while ripping DVD to .ISO file
9. Move 2.5GB files under load - Move 2.5GB of mixed size files (ranging from 1MB to 100MB) from one hard drive to another while ripping DVD to .ISO file
10. Network transfer 100MB files under load - Move 100MB of JPEG files from test machine to NAS device while ripping DVD to .ISO file
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Re:release date (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.virtualbox.org/register [virtualbox.org]
Re:Vista SP2 (Score:5, Funny)
Windows 7 Desktop 2.6.27.19-3.2-default #1 SMP 2009-02-25 15:40:44
Re:Vista SP2 (Score:5, Funny)
I propose calling it ReVista
Re:Vista SP2 (Score:5, Funny)
No, Vista ME seems more proper
Re:Vista SP2 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Will run on netbooks or drag? (Score:1, Funny)
We have talked about W7 performance on netbooks [slashdot.org] which will only allow to run 3 apps. Perfect for an antivirus, a firewall, an antispyware, the WGA [microsoft.com]... oh crap!
Is this the ultimate trump card for emacs over vi? One app is all you need!
Re:Will run on netbooks or drag? (Score:3, Funny)
Therein lies the problem. Although XP is several years old, it actually does every single thing a user needs from an operating system.
Actually, no it doesn't. It's klunky looking and slow. On my corporate issue Lenovo T60, I was amazed at how fast a machine it really was when I was permitted to wipe the "Enterprise" XP and replace it with RHEL.
I found it difficult to give up the multiple desktops I had become accustomed to in over a decade (starting way back from olvwm) and I also found it difficult to customize. It takes a few seconds and no internet access to fix the large key to the left of the `a' key issue (should be control not capslock) on both MacOS X and KDE.
The only thing I ever found pleasurable about Microsoft Windows XP was how I felt when I turned the machine off.
I despise the citrix applications I am forced to use, but at least I can run them on a decent desktop system.
Huge wall of text? Check.
Microsoft sycophantry? Check.
High userid? Check.
Lord and Lady pair, I love the smell of astroturf in the morning!
Re:Vista SP2 (Score:4, Funny)
It's actually Vista XP, because they learned from experience.