Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Dec 2008 23:44 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
I'm sure you're all still (sadly) familiar with the recent 'debate' I had with InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy, which detailed a lot of silly things. The seed of that discussion was planted with Kennedy's first article which, among other things, claimed that Windows 7 performed similarly to Windows Vista (meaning, slower than XP). Leaving the thread count discussion behind, Kennedy did include a benchmark which showed that Windows 7 performed similar to Windows Vista. There's a new benchmark out now, comparing a slightly more recent build of Windows 7 to Vista RTM/SP1 and XP SP3, and in these tests, Windows 7 blows all of those out of the water.
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2008-11-16
I find it amazing how Microsoft can spend millions on an Operating System that cannot allow a 'regular user account' to run programs without administrator or power user rights.
The entire operating system has the same inherit flaws from rehash to rehash. Plus, they seem to break compatibility with software, yet 16bit legacy code is still in the kernel from the NT days.
In my opinion it would be better for Microsoft to scrap this code base and develop an OS that a regular user can use it without fighting with the OS to run a program without special rights. This is a fundamental flaw in which this piece is broken. The core part of this is viruses/malware/spyware installs effortlessly with users running as administrator.
Another fact, Windows Server is not a multi-user operating system they can repackage it as much they like it still does not have true multi-user unix/linux distro's have that are inherit. Plus the fact of cost of Anti-Virus, Spyware/Malware and lacking of a real firewall. When you add up the cost of Windows including problems with viruses/malware it is expensive to say the least.
I would rather maintain CentOS desktops any day of the week than the time spent to clean up Windows boxes. I do not see Windows coming out with these new releases every other year being consumed as they were in the past. Even big mega corps have passed on Vista and Windows 7 is going to be a bigger mess with lack of compatibility and monster hardware requirements.
A Linux distro offers more security, remote management, office suite, email, and functionality Windows just does not offer that is able to maintain code reliability without major headaches. Anyways, just my rant and the famous quotes from a marketing machine that dribbles the same rehash that this version of Windows is the best, so fast you can't even see it boot and secure. This is why Microsoft is plagued with the same viruses people change up and send out over and over...
Not impressed, will not use it or will never purchase it and one day Microsoft will be like GM with time.