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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2007-02-27
you're wrong!!!!
UAC enables users to perform common day-to-day tasks as non-administrators. These users are called "standard users" in Windows Vista. User accounts that are members of the local Administrators group will run most applications by using the principle of least privilege. In this scenario, least-privileged users have rights that resemble the rights of a standard user account
Edited 2008-12-13 18:30 UTC