Lots of people who are testing the various Windows 7 builds have already reported that Windows 7 is faster and snappier than Windows Vista, and some even say that it approaches Windows XP. Apparently, web browsers in particular will benefit from running on Windows 7 instead of Windows Vista SP2. BetaNews ran tests of all the major browsers on both Vista SP2 and Windows 7, and concluded that in general, browsers are round and about 12%-18% faster on 7 than on Vista.
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Member since:2005-07-03
Windows Vista was CRAP for end users, mainly because of poor Microsoft decisions (too many stuff and services on inappropriate hardware by default) and horrid OEM vendors (Lenovo, Sony, HP… to name the ones I've personally seen), including gigabytes of crap made in Java that loads on startup. I've seen a few brand new Lenovos take 5-6 minutes to have a barely responsive system from a cold start. Customers that have used those systems for a few months (not even using Internet but a .NET propietary system we sell), report as much as "ten minutes" till I can double click something. Our system is for dentists, they don't have IM/Mail on those boxes (nor any other windows program for the matter), so it's not a "bad user" case.
On the other hand vista has been the first small (and not so small) step for Microsoft to try to patch a decade of poorly made decisions regarding their OS. In my humble opinion it was plagued with lies, deadlines and bad stuff, but it also brought a new base that will be improved (Win 7 being the 1st improvement).
However, should you try Windows 7 (having Vista experience) you'll notice a million years of improvements in almost every area. I am surprised. Despite that, there are things about Windows 7 that I still don't really like (and probably never will). If I had to use Windows (and I do) I'd definitely use Windows 7.
That said, it's been 7 years since I've been using OS X and Windows XP (Vista for the last 8 months) inside a VM for Visual Studio .NET 3.5 development.
At least since the incarnation of Parallels/VMware. Before those, I used a Windows box with Visual Studio and SQL Server only, no internet at all and my Macintosh box next to it with all "my life".
My point is simple, Windows 7 still has things I do not like, but it's really decent compared to Vista. We'll have to wait to see how OEM vendors break all that again…
Member since:2006-01-20
Windows 7 does come with improvements over XP. Some are just simple visual ones like the screen doesn't go black a few times during logon, icons don't redraw every moment.
It appears to boot win 7 faster but when comparing a new 2.5GHz athlon x2 to an old 1GHz athlon the later still boots XP faster.
Member since:2005-07-06
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2007-03-23
Of course Windows Vista is the BESTEST OS i used. Now I am switching to Microsoft Window$ 7 because it will be even better than the BESTEST. I love Microsoft and MARKETING!