Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Feb 2007 22:26 UTC, submitted by dedownman
"In the world of operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista is just a baby. It's just now toddling along on new systems being sold throughout the U.S. And, like a small child being dropped by the stork to new parents, it's available to older desktop PCs via Microsoft's download-to-buy program. Giving early adopters such easy, unfettered access to the somewhat untested OS was a bold move by Microsoft. The company had to know that people like those who work at PC Magazine would be among the first to test-drive this new installation option."
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"Boot times/system speed for Linux and Mac OS X have increased. Windows has not.":
Let's see, boot OS X or PCBSD once every couple of months at 2 minutes per boot. 12 months divided by 2 times 2 minutes per boot = about 12 minutes per year boot time.
OK, boot Windows three times a week at 1 minute per boot. 3 times per week x 52 weeks per year x 1 minute per boot = 156 minutes per year boot time.
Hey you are right, that is much quicker than the 312 minutes per year I used to spend booting the older versions of Windows.
I wonder why I ever switched to OS X and PCBSD...
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Boot times/system speed for Linux and Mac OS X have increased. Windows has not.
here are 2 examples (there are plenty more)
http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/04/01/30/05FElinux_2.htm...
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2006/11/1048_boosts_pho.html
Vista is out to make you buy new hardware... Thats it, it offers nothing that justifies the expense or increases user productivity.