What sh*ts me about Vista is that after you logon, the GUI is still unusable for the next 20-30 seconds whilst all types of stuff loads.
W7 is substantially better. GUI is usable within about half that time Cheers Ken From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 9:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gone way OT: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Right now I'm comparing to Vista. Vista takes about 55 seconds to boot. W7 about 41. That's from power on to logon screen. From: Lee Douglas [mailto:lee.doug...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Gone way OT: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Faster than Vista or XP? On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Martin Blackstone <mblackst...@gmail.com<mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com>> wrote: Indeed. I personally don't think there is much of anything GREAT about Vista. But I don't think it's bad either. To me it's just not that much bang for the buck as far as upgrade costs go. Performance really isn't anything to write home about. I would take a new PC with it on there today. I wouldn't really be willing to spend any money to upgrade anything with it though. I've always found the whole thing to be very "eh, I can take it or leave it". Which to me isn't good enough for upgrading. I've been playing with 7 a little bit and the first thing I noticed was the performance. I'm stoked. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com<mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com>] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Gone way OT: Windows 7 On TechNet Now I like Vista. But there are some things that continue to irk me from a user perspective. Stuff like: a) explorer windows keep "forgetting" which columns they should be displaying for file properties b) booting is way to slow Both of the above two appear to be "fixed" in Win 7 betas. There is no way I could run Vista usably on a 1.6GHz netbook, but Win 7 works fine. That's good IMHO Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com<mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com>] Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Gone way OT: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Ok, since we are on the subject... This has been irking me lately, I need to get it off my chest! I have been highly skeptical of all the rave reviews of 7 so far. There seems to be this wonderful wave of hope around 7 in the blogosphere, touting 7 is better than Vista. But Vista kinda of had terrible press, and everyone was convinced it was the next ME. In actually, it wasn't. Vista is great. It had it SP0 bumps for sure, but Vista in general was much better that I think the press made it out to be. Everyone is jumping in joy that 7 boots faster than Vista, more stable, etc, etc. Big Whoop. IMO, IT BETTER be faster and more stable! This is not a feature, this is a EXPECTATION. Better stability? Again, not a bonus feature, it's an expectation. New versions should NEVER be slower, especially with the crazy pace of hardware advancements. All in all, I think Vista's bad rep is just paving the way for good reviews of 7. It's like when Steve Jobs put the 'improved' Audio Jack in his slide show for the Gen 2 iPhone. No, Steve, you can't do that. You &*^&cked up with Gen1 with the audio port, and you fixed it in Gen2. You cannot market it as a new feature. The fact that he had to market that and throw it in his slid show, just goes to show that there weren't enough other new features introduced to talk about. I don't no much about 7, I haven't tried it, I'm sure I will download it on Friday, and buy a copy on release. I just hope MS knows what they are doing forcing an OS out the door so quickly. -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com<mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com>] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 On TechNet Now Since the other beta's are out... I really like the new task bar. I'm not sold on the new Start button. Otherwise - it's very much like Vista sp2. Except that it uses less memory. At idle, my Vista system uses about 850 MB. At idle (pretty much the same startup applications), Win7 uses 500 MB. Speed-wise - I don't detect any appreciable difference. But I've got pretty fast machines already. I have found a couple of pretty obvious bugs, so I don't consider it production-ready. Regards, Michael B. 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