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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Member since:2005-11-29
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?
Well, I think people are impressed with the amount of polish in these development builds. It's really hard to appreciate without using it, sure I get some crashes, and sure my sound driver is out of whack, but it's really really impressive and speaks volumes to the reorganization of the Windows Division from a development perspective.
Following Vista the team had an internal restructure to be more flexible than they were in previous releases, the new guys heading the Division are super-smart Office guys who know how to get things done. It's working, at least that's my impression.
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.
I think people are excited, every Windows release gets this. I remember during Vista's development OSNews was flooded with articles about every Beta as well.
The Benchmarks are to be taken with a grain of salt, but not to be dismissed entirely. While I am wary to trust any bencharmk but my own experience, I can say that Windows 7 is indeed faster than Vista (not sure about XP) by a measurable amount.
I wouldn't say "blows it out of the water", but it is faster with much less hardware.
For example, DWM.exe on Vista takes up 70MB while 7's DWM.exe takes up 12MB with the same number of Windows open. Something, clearly, something is happening.
I'm happily posting from Win7, if Microsoft can keep this up they will have a very solid release on their hands.
I know it's hard to buy into the hype, so take all of this with a grain of salt, and let your own experience dictate your opinion
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Member since:2005-07-12
I think people are excited, every Windows release gets this.
Yes, exactly the marketing / fangirl behaviour I was talking about. Software deserves to be ingnored unless it is a selling product.
I remember during Vista's development OSNews was flooded with articles about every Beta as well.
Yes, that was boring as hell, too (and made some fangirls really look silly since they praised the "all-new-and-wonderful" JesusOS for 5+ years and then - after release - had to defend that product with arguments like "performance isn't bad - you just need the latest and greatest HW and 2+GB or RAM" - how idiotic is that?)
We might as well talk about the color of Bill Gates underwear ..
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2005-07-08
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