Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Nov 2012 15:17 UTC
"As we pass the one month anniversary of the general availability of Windows 8, we are pleased to announce that to-date Microsoft has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses. Tami Reller shared this news with industry and financial analysts, investors and media today at the Credit Suisse 2012 Annual Technology Conference. Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms of upgrades." Not bad, but there are the usual asterisks, as Ars notes.
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RE[5]: Comment by MOS6510
by zlynx on Wed 28th Nov 2012 21:28
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I believe that there were some latency improvements in Win8. Things seem to happen more quickly after you click.
Some of that is related to the removal of the Aero effects.
All in all it gives an impression of more speed. I don't think things are actually faster. But making them seem faster is a worthy thing in its own right.
RE[6]: Comment by MOS6510
by lucas_maximus on Wed 28th Nov 2012 21:40
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All in all it gives an impression of more speed. I don't think things are actually faster. But making them seem faster is a worthy thing in its own right.
Believe it or not, this is a lot of being a Front End Web developer.
I made out website load twice as quick ... do you know how I did that? I moved the JavaScript from the <head> to the just before the closing <body> tag. That isn't as easy as you think when you have many inline scripts that expect certain script ... cough cough jquery .. to exist in the <head>.
Everything took exactly the same amount of time to load as before for the most part (I did compress, combine and minify scripts, I got from 33 JS files to 13 ... still more optimisation to come ... but I didn't think it made a huge difference overall).
But it seemed faster because the page was displayed almost instantly. Next is ajax loading large images, and spriting the website CSS background images.
Perceived performance is almost as good as real performance in a lot of cases.
However I don't agree it is just the Aero effects, I am seeing less memory being used in Task manager generally ... but my finding are obviously anecdotal.
Edited 2012-11-28 21:42 UTC
RE[5]: Comment by MOS6510
by WorknMan on Wed 28th Nov 2012 22:09
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8 is miles faster than 7.
People keep claiming this, but I just am not seeing such. I have Windows 8 on my laptop and while it is faster to boot the difference between Windows 7 and Windows 8 boot times is about 2 seconds, and while running there is absolutely no difference in speeds whatsoever.
People keep claiming this, but I just am not seeing such. I have Windows 8 on my laptop and while it is faster to boot the difference between Windows 7 and Windows 8 boot times is about 2 seconds, and while running there is absolutely no difference in speeds whatsoever.
Same here, although it's definitely not any slower
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/13/13 14:35 UTC
The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/11/13 17:07 UTC
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/10/13 23:13 UTC
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/08/13 14:57 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/04/13 12:45 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
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People keep claiming this, but I just am not seeing such. I have Windows 8 on my laptop and while it is faster to boot the difference between Windows 7 and Windows 8 boot times is about 2 seconds, and while running there is absolutely no difference in speeds whatsoever.