Star Microsoft to Abandon Vista, Fast Track Windows 7?
Linked by David Adams on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 17:23 UTC
Windows Hot on the heels of our previous story outlining the fiasco that Vista's release has been, TechRepublic's Jason Hiner predicts that Microsoft is aware of its blunder and will respond by making a release of Windows 7 ahead of schedule (primarily by overhauling Vista and calling it Windows 7, it seems) in order to encourage its enterprise clients to upgrade directly from XP to Windows 7.
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RE[2]: 1st window I will not use
by mallard on Thu 24th Apr 2008 09:05 UTC in reply to "RE: 1st window I will not use"
mallard
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- Way too slow, memory hog, too much background services

The first point can also be applied to other systems, like Ubuntu for example.


Huh? From my (fairly extensive) use of Ubuntu, I rarely see it top 512MB RAM usage (usually in the 350-400MB range - this is with no swap usage), compared to Vista, which can barely boot in that (and has to use a significant amount of swap/pagefile), on my system (3.5GB RAM) it uses about 1GB idling.
As for speed, (X)Ubuntu runs acceptably on my old P-II 400Mhz laptop, I'd like to see someone try to run Vista on something that old.
With background services, both OS's use them extensively, but I've never had one cause problems on Ubuntu, whereas on Vista I regularly experience slowdowns caused by background services (usually TrustedInstaller).

So how does "Way too slow, memory hog, too much background services" apply to Ubuntu again?

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