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leap frog vista
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We all know that Vista is crap. Well not all of us realise this, only those
of us who have a brain...
MS, AT LAST realizes the many blunders it made with vista and is trying to
correct them in Windows 7.
Why are they doing this? Well because of fear. People hate vista and are
turning towards other solutions.
People hate vista and are making fun of it. People hate vista and are
calling it the Me of NT. People know vista is slow
and performs well enough only on 4 core machines with 2 gigs of ram or more.
Totally ridiculous!
Note: I posted this on the XP newsgroup for the XP users to warn them to
WAIT until windows 7 is out. Don't throw away money on vista if you are not
getting a new fast machine.
Or in other words, LEAPFROG vista! YEAH!
Read below:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1563
When Microsoft was developing Vista, or Longhorn, as it was known way back
when, company officials were fond of making promises about ways that
Microsoft would improve on Windows XP with its next-generation Windows
release.
With Windows 7, Microsoft's goal seems to be to provide as few promises as
possible against which the final product can and will be compared and
measured. That said, over the Labor Day weekend in a post by Distinguished
Engineer Michael Fortin - who leads the Fundamnetals feature team in the
Core Operating Systems Group - Microsoft did dangle one tangible tidbit
about Windows 7. From the post:
"For Windows 7, a top goal is to significantly increase the number of
systems that experience very good boot times. In the lab, a very good system
is one that boots in under 15 seconds."
(The reason I put a question mark in the headline of my post is because
Fortin doesn't actually go so far as to say that Microsoft is promising to
hit the rarefied "in the lab" boot-time measure. But the implication is
definitely there.)
The August 29 post goes on to discuss how Microsoft is aiming to reduce the
number of system services in Windows 7, "as well as reduce their CPU, disk
and memory demand" as part of the quest to improve overall system
performance with Windows 7. Windows 7 will include more enhancements to
pre-fetching, which was introduced initially as part of Windows XP,
according to Fortin's post, and more parallelism in driver initialization -
two more ways Microsoft is counting on speeding up initial system boot
times.
Microsoft also is working with PC makers to show them ways to improve
Windows 7 system performance, as well, Fortin blogged. He wrote:
"(W)e'd like to point out there is considerable engagement with our partners
underway. In scanning dozens of systems, we've found plenty of opportunity
for improvement and have made changes. Illustrating that, please consider
the following data taken from a real system. As the system arrived to us,
the off-the-shelf configuration had a ~45 second boot time. Performing a
clean install of Vista SP1 on the same system produced a consistent ~23
second boot time. Of course, being a clean install, there were many fewer
processes, services and a slightly different set of drivers (mostly the
versions were different). However, we were able to take the off-the-shelf
configuration and optimize it to produce a consistent boot time of ~21
seconds, ~2 seconds faster than the clean install because some driver/BIOS
changes could be made in the optimized configuration."
The much-touted official "Engineering Windows 7? blog has provided a lot of
words about how Microsoft developers think about building an operating
system and how/why certain trade-offs are made. But specifics on Windows 7
features? Sounds like Microsoft won't be sharing anything substantial on
that until it releases a broader test build of 7, which is expected around
the time of the Professional Developers Conference in late October.
of us who have a brain...
MS, AT LAST realizes the many blunders it made with vista and is trying to
correct them in Windows 7.
Why are they doing this? Well because of fear. People hate vista and are
turning towards other solutions.
People hate vista and are making fun of it. People hate vista and are
calling it the Me of NT. People know vista is slow
and performs well enough only on 4 core machines with 2 gigs of ram or more.
Totally ridiculous!
Note: I posted this on the XP newsgroup for the XP users to warn them to
WAIT until windows 7 is out. Don't throw away money on vista if you are not
getting a new fast machine.
Or in other words, LEAPFROG vista! YEAH!
Read below:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1563
When Microsoft was developing Vista, or Longhorn, as it was known way back
when, company officials were fond of making promises about ways that
Microsoft would improve on Windows XP with its next-generation Windows
release.
With Windows 7, Microsoft's goal seems to be to provide as few promises as
possible against which the final product can and will be compared and
measured. That said, over the Labor Day weekend in a post by Distinguished
Engineer Michael Fortin - who leads the Fundamnetals feature team in the
Core Operating Systems Group - Microsoft did dangle one tangible tidbit
about Windows 7. From the post:
"For Windows 7, a top goal is to significantly increase the number of
systems that experience very good boot times. In the lab, a very good system
is one that boots in under 15 seconds."
(The reason I put a question mark in the headline of my post is because
Fortin doesn't actually go so far as to say that Microsoft is promising to
hit the rarefied "in the lab" boot-time measure. But the implication is
definitely there.)
The August 29 post goes on to discuss how Microsoft is aiming to reduce the
number of system services in Windows 7, "as well as reduce their CPU, disk
and memory demand" as part of the quest to improve overall system
performance with Windows 7. Windows 7 will include more enhancements to
pre-fetching, which was introduced initially as part of Windows XP,
according to Fortin's post, and more parallelism in driver initialization -
two more ways Microsoft is counting on speeding up initial system boot
times.
Microsoft also is working with PC makers to show them ways to improve
Windows 7 system performance, as well, Fortin blogged. He wrote:
"(W)e'd like to point out there is considerable engagement with our partners
underway. In scanning dozens of systems, we've found plenty of opportunity
for improvement and have made changes. Illustrating that, please consider
the following data taken from a real system. As the system arrived to us,
the off-the-shelf configuration had a ~45 second boot time. Performing a
clean install of Vista SP1 on the same system produced a consistent ~23
second boot time. Of course, being a clean install, there were many fewer
processes, services and a slightly different set of drivers (mostly the
versions were different). However, we were able to take the off-the-shelf
configuration and optimize it to produce a consistent boot time of ~21
seconds, ~2 seconds faster than the clean install because some driver/BIOS
changes could be made in the optimized configuration."
The much-touted official "Engineering Windows 7? blog has provided a lot of
words about how Microsoft developers think about building an operating
system and how/why certain trade-offs are made. But specifics on Windows 7
features? Sounds like Microsoft won't be sharing anything substantial on
that until it releases a broader test build of 7, which is expected around
the time of the Professional Developers Conference in late October.
