ir0×0r

I just want to get this down, in writing and well in advance, that I’m thinking Win7 is going to take a massive comparative performance dump as soon as it launches.

Sure, things look good now, but I want to see what they will do to the final released version. What services have they not sprung on us yet? What will be running in the released version that isn’t running now? What aspects of the services running now will change when they release it?

Another way to say it would be to ask if there will still be windows time running as a service?

Don’t get me wrong, M$ seems to be doing a dramatically better job of getting driver support ready for launch as compared to XP or Vista. But I’m really concerned when I read things like they have reduced boot times. It would be all too easy to reduce boot times by delaying the startup of some services until after you have a cursor.

After the beating that Vista took and all the time and money M$ spent trying to recover from that combined with all the money they spent getting Vista up and running in the first place, I think it would be suicide to release an actual new OS at this time.

There would of course be many significant problems with any brand new OS, that’s only natural. But M$ seems to created a run on that market. Win98 was fantastic for people running DOS or 95. The move to XP was very difficult because you had to have a whole new set of drivers. Vista was even worse and we are only now getting caught up. I still have a couple laser printers that just won’t work right with Vista.

So I’m thinking that Win7 is going to be 90% Vista with Service Pack 2.5/3 and a cosmetic face lift. At first I thought releasing SP2 for Vista was a bad move because I’m guessing the Vista SP2 performance is going to be very similar to Win7.

But if you have questions about a few of the things you’re doing differently in Win7 and if Win7 is really just Vista with a higher SP, what better way to get those last few kinks worked out?

In the end, this is M$’s version of the old NVIDIA rebranding trick. If at first you don’t succeed, brand, brand again.

EDIT: It has been pointed out that this article (thanks blackgold9) has a negative tone as though I am not a fan of M$. Just for the record, I don’t use Linux or any derivatives thereof, nor do I plan to. I think M$ does a great job given the broad range of hardware and software that is supported, even if it doesn’t always get supported well. I can’t imagine using anything different. When Win7 comes out, I’ll certainly be using it and I’ve already started running some benchmarks to see if I turn out to be right or not.

So I’m not really an M$ hater, I’m just pointing out how marketing can effect the products we use.

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