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By: Scot

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Those of you who have no problems with Windows 7:

Read the story I wrote again. I’m not saying there are serious problems with Windows 7. I’m saying there aren’t any significant improvements. Of course people are saying “it’s fast.” Most of them have just clean installed a new version of Windows and they’re comparing it with their Vista experience, which is laden down with a blizzard of background services.

What I’m saying (apparently not that well) is that Windows 7 has the same problems as Vista. If you’ve got the latest, greatest super-fast PC, you won’t notice that so much. In my story, I’m not just comparing Windows 7 to Vista. I’m comparing it to OS X and Linux — both of which are incredibly fast compared to any version of Windows, even XP. What’s more, I’m comparing Windows 7 to XP because I still use that version of Windows.

Microsoft is touting Windows 7 as being leaner and meaner. I’m saying: Don’t believe that in Beta 1. I did see signs of that in the November preview code release. And it got my attention. Unfortunately that hasn’t continued into Beta 1.

Microsoft is as much in the business of selling new hardware as it is selling software. As I wrote in the conclusion of the story, Windows is perennially overtaxed. Each new major release seems to begin with the design premise that the OS can expand its footprint and suck up major portions of the available computing power toward the top end of the current hardware spectrum. Why does Windows continue to become more and more complicated with every major new release?

Ever notice that we always smirk at Microsoft’s minimum system requirements? They’re always a joke? No one even talks about that with Linux. And no one talks about performance issues with the Mac, using the same hardware nowadays that Windows users get. That’s an important distinction that longtime Windows users rarely pause and consider.

If you’ve been using Windows as an OS exclusively for the last 5 years or more, do yourself a favor: Install Ubuntu for a trial run or rent a Mac for a month. At the very least, I promise that either experience will be an eye-opener in the area of system performance and reliability

– Scot


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