Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jul 2007 12:54 UTC
Six months ago, after a long gestation period, Microsoft finally released Windows Vista. Vista is a huge release; not only because of the long list of new features, but also because of its sheer size, and number of bugs and other oddities and downsides. The development process that lead to Vista has left many with a very bitter aftertaste; features were cut, codebases were scrapped, release dates postponed. A few days ago, Microsoft released some sparse details on Vista's successor, internally dubbed 'Windows 7', and in order to prevent another Vista-like development cycle, here is what I would advise Microsoft to do. Update: APCMag reports that Julie Larson-Green, who was the driving force behind Office 2007's new Ribbon user interface, has been transferred to the Windows 7 GUI team.
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2006-01-24
google_ninja wrote:
-"There is a feature which is basically aggressive caching called ReadyBoost. What it does is it figures out what apps you use when, and starts loading them before you launch them. This (in conjunction with a few other features) makes working on vista seem alot more snappy and responsive, however it also uses huge amounts of ram. The whole "Use a flashdisk to improve performance" thing is there pretty much to mitigate it, but that is where your ram consumption goes."
first of all, the caching feature is called SuperFetch, ReadyBoost is the ability to use USB flash memory as ram. secondly SuperFetch isn't what drives the higher memory requirements for Vista, it's the actual system consisting of the kernel and services running. the Superfetch cache will be flushed the second a program needs that memory, so if you launch an application that needs 1gb ram it will flush out enough precached applications so that the application requesting 1gb ram will get it. and since the SuperFetch cache consists of nothing but preloaded executables, it can be flushed instantly.
so while SuperFetch may give the impression that it is responsible for the high memory requirements for Vista, it really isn't. personally I think that together with the (imo) overall improved looks, SuperFetch and ReadyBoost are some of the (again in my opinion) very few highlights of Vista.