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InfoWorld’s Randall Kennedy examines Windows 7 from the kernel up, subjecting the “pre-beta” to a battery of benchmarks to find any signs that the OS will be faster, more responsive, and less resource-intensive than the bloated Vista, as Microsoft suggests.

Identical thread counts at the kernel level suggest to Kennedy that Windows 7 is a “minor point-type of release, as opposed to a major update or rewrite.” Memory footprint for the kernel proved eerily similar to
that of Vista as well.

“In fact, as I worked my way through the process lists of the two operating systems, I was struck by the extent of the similarities,” Kennedy writes, before discussing the results of a nine-way workload test scenario he performed on Windows 7 — the same scenario that showed Vista was 40 percent slower than Windows XP.

“In a nutshell, Windows 7 M3 is a virtual twin of Vista when it comes to performance,” Kennedy concludes. “In other words, Microsoft’s follow-up to its most unpopular OS release since Windows Me threatens to deliver zero measurable performance benefits while introducing new and potentially crippling compatibility issues.’”

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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/10/46TC-windows-7_1.html
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/17/12TC-vista-versus-xp_6.html

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Posted by: Geoff Caplan

http://geoffcaplan.com

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