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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I have 3 Windows XP computers, and all user accounts are non-administrators one. There is absolutely nothing preventing me, my wife or my children using these computers every day without being administrators (except to install programs or do administrative tasks...).
Same goes with the XP station I'm using at work.
You are being mistaken between OS and application. An application not doing administrative tasks but still requiring Admin account is a badly coded one. You can't blame the OS for that.