Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day 706
Eugen writes "A Microsoft Software Engineer has posted the results of tests the company performed on the upgrade time of Windows 7. The metric used was total upgrade time across different user profiles (with different data set sizes and number of programs installed) and different hardware profiles. A clean 32-bit install on what Microsoft calls 'high-end hardware' should take only 30 minutes. In the worst case scenario, the process will take about 1220 minutes. That second extreme is not a typo: Microsoft really did time an upgrade that took 20 hours and 20 minutes. That's with 650GB of data and 40 applications, on mid-end hardware, and during a 32-bit upgrade. We don't even want to know how long it would take if Microsoft had bothered doing the same test with low-end hardware. The other interesting point worth noting is that the 32-bit upgrade is faster on a clean install than a 64-bit upgrade, regardless of the hardware configuration, and is faster on low-end hardware, regardless of the Data Profile. In the other six cases, the 64-bit upgrade is faster than the 32-bit upgrade."
Almost competing (Score:4, Funny)
What's a day (Score:5, Funny)
when you consider the lifetime of misery that follows?
Mid-end?! Really?! (Score:5, Funny)
This reminds me of a funny bit from "The Three Stooges" that goes something like this:
Moe: I'll take this end ...and I'll take the end in the middle!
Larry: I'll take that end
Curly:
Just so you know, there isn't an "end" in the middle. There is "low-end" and "high-end" but there is no "mid-end." That would be medium level, mid-grade or average or something else.
Mid-end is almost as jarring to the grammar nodes of my brain as "incentivize."
This is why ... (Score:5, Funny)
.. the Windows 7 Drinking Game [today.com] exists. Let's add:
* One shot every thirty minutes the install or upgrade process takes.
* One shot if you have to start over.
* Drain the bottle if it ATE YOUR GODDAMN DATA.
Any others to add?
Re:Mid-end?! Really?! (Score:5, Funny)
understanding worst-case-scenarios (Score:2, Funny)
You could never get laid ever again in your entire lifetime!
Actually this one was quite a realistic scenario ... let's try another one:
You could be eaten by a grue within the next minute!
Re:What's a day (Score:4, Funny)
What's a day when you consider the lifetime of misery that follows?
It's like the complete opposite of Linux: you spend a lifetime of misery trying to figure out what the fuck is going on, and then get to use it for 20 hours before you realise you need to use something that only runs in Windows.
"the process will take a bit 1220 minutes" (Score:5, Funny)
OMG, if the clean install is something like 4.8GB [overclock.net] then that would be 4.13175854 * 10^10 bits, times 1220 minutes/bit equals 95 840 997.1 years!
Re:Almost competing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only Vista (Score:4, Funny)
I quite agree. I'm running build 16387 and it is very sta
Re:Only Vista (Score:5, Funny)
Yep. http://xkcd.com/612/ [xkcd.com]
Re:Only Vista (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Only Vista (Score:3, Funny)
I built a 64-bit Vista box last year for gaming and it hasn't picked up lint. The reason? Everything other than gaming goes in an XP virtual machine. I've rolled back to the snapshot, applied patches, retaken the snapshot, and then reinstalled apps 3 times in the VM, but the main box has stayed minty fresh.
Re:Mid-end?! Really?! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What is the cost to a business ... (Score:2, Funny)
Or you just load the VM fullscreen at startup.
The boss is happy because he has the newest PC in the office AND everything is exactly as it was before, and you're happy because you didn't do any real work. win-win situation.
Re:Only Vista (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mid-end?! Really?! (Score:2, Funny)
He's making a joke about grammar pendantry.
Re:Mid-end?! Really?! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Almost competing (Score:5, Funny)
Right, because so many people have issues where Windows breaks on their hardware. So few companies publish Windows drivers for their products these days.
Windows 7's barely out and you've forgotten Vista already!
Re:Not a typo? (Score:4, Funny)
I vote for the "plain fucking stupid" option...
Re:This is why ... (Score:3, Funny)
* Drink every time the "estimated time left" goes up instead of down or is otherwise shown to be inaccurate.
Re:Only Vista (Score:5, Funny)
WOOOOOSH!
Sarcastic WOOSH generation complete. Automatically submitting "Preview" and "Submit" buttons.
Re:Mid-end?! Really?! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is why ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mid-end?! Really?! (Score:4, Funny)
Seriously, who here hasn't charted out the $ to calorie ratios of all the menu items at popular fast food chains? They even make it easier by putting the calorie listings on the back of the place mat at mcdonalds!
It isn't worth it. The free sachets of mayo win every time.
Re:42K RPM hard drives? (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, Where do you get one of those 42,000 RPM drives?
At the store two blocks down the road. They are also having a special on a free zero with every purchase!
Re:Almost competing (Score:5, Funny)
There's a club for people like you. We have t-shirts.
Re:Almost competing (Score:5, Funny)
Windows 95. The version that came on 13 floppy disks. Especially if you got a "lucky" bad sector on disk 13.
Re:Almost competing (Score:3, Funny)
You're ridiculous. You know that? Completely ridiculous.
As soon as I finish figuring out how to get my wireless internet to work in ubuntu, I'm totally going to trash your post with the most erudite and articulate rebuttal ever!
Re:Only Vista (Score:1, Funny)
My 2.5-year-old Vista install is as quick and responsive as the day I installed it.
There are multiple ways I can take that...