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[Nvyseal]

images/news/windows.jpgReport: Benchmarks Show Windows 7 Pre-Beta to be Bloated, With Compatibility Issues

If early testing holds true, so much for running Windows 7 reliably on a netbook

One key Windows 7 feature driven home again and again by Microsoft's Windows team is the superior system performance with respect to Vista. The team, at the recent Professional Developers Conference (PDC), showed off a netbook apparently running the OS smoothly, leading many to hope that their prayers of a smaller-footprint Microsoft OS had been answered.

Unfortunately, it seems the rosy picture painted by the development team at the WinHEC and PDC conferences might have been a bit overly optimistic. InfoWorld has done some extensive early testing on the pre-beta of Windows 7 and the results aren't very impressive in terms of improvement over Vista.

According to InfoWorld, in terms of basic system design, Windows 7 is shaping up to be a OS X like release, in that it is only a minor iteration over Windows Vista, with little change in performance.

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[m.oreilly]

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This is one terrible article based off of another terrible article. Benchmarks of a pre-beta OS. Just brilliant. Geez, I thought Dailytech was better than this.

First, this is pre-beta. Second, it isn't even the newest build. Third, many of the features are specifically turned off in the 6801 build because they were still buggy at the time of that build (given the pre-beta state). The build shown off at PDC (6933) was newer and more stable than the build given to attendees (6801). The build attendees got was several weeks old at the time, per some MS employees at the conference. Apparently it takes time to prepare and dupe several thousand hard drives given out to attendees. It's not a gold release. It's not a release candidate. It's not even beta.

If this was the final release candidate, that'd be one thing. Your not going to make major changes for performance changes at that point. But making snap judgements off a pre-beta build. Lame. I wouldn't make performance judgements this early against any OS, including OS X and Linux distros.

[Nvyseal]

m.oreilly, on Nov 11 2008, 01:35 PM, said:

hehe, i was reading those, and knew this article would stir up conversation