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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Yeah, you may be quite right about him, he is an independent writer. But I was just talking about the Windows 7 article boom in general anyway. My fault if I didn't make it clear enough what I was referring to.
Anyway, MS clearly encourages also independent writers to write more articles on Windows 7, by sending copies of development versions of it etc. All kind of publicity keep people excited about the upcoming new Windows 7.
Why are there so many stories about Windows 7 in general now, even though it is still only a rough development version? What happened to Windows Vista, and why do we see much less Vista stories already than Windows 7 stories?
As to the actual benchmarks, they don't make very much sense yet, as so many things are still unclear about the final Windows 7. Just some tests for tests sake. So it makes sense to ask why do we see so many such benchmarks and articles about Windows 7 already.
Edited 2008-12-13 20:02 UTC