Dell's Early Windows 7 Impressions
Millions of users have been testing Windows 7 thanks to the release of the public beta earlier this year. Now let’s hear what Dell has to say about its experiences.
Dell, one of the largest computer makers in the world, shared briefly some of its experiences from its internal testing of Windows 7.
“Over the last month we have been testing hundreds of Dell systems and the results are promising,” wrote Daniel Judd, Dell product strategist.
In comparison to Windows Vista, Dell found noticeable improvements in boot to desktop times. We already knew that Microsoft is not only fine tuning boot speed, but also working with OEMs to reduce boot-slowing bloatware.
Dell also reports good things about compatibility. Almost all existing Vista drivers are working, and testers say application compatibility is promising as well, including the IE8 compatibility mode.
Overall performance is upgraded, with tests of transcoding media files being faster than the latest Windows Vista builds.
By now many of you who are interested in Windows 7 may have already gotten your own hands-on time with the betas. Are the findings reported by Dell enough to make you upgrade from Vista or even XP?
I am thinking the only reason people don't use linux is they do not know how and the learning curve is slightly long, what if most people understand linux, will there still be anybody use windows? I doubt, seriously.(by then suppose all games are perfectly compatible in linux)
As much as I hate to give M$ any more money,(already bought 2 Vista licences) I think I'm gonna have a copy of Win7 on day 1.
Prior to the beta release I knew I would upgrade to atmost the Premium version, but now after actually using just this Beta Ultimate release I do see myself purchasing the Official 7 Ultimate
What you fail to understand is the utter lack of user knowledge. Mac's advertise that you don't need to know anything, and with Linux, you need to know way too much for the average user. Windows Vista and "7" are moving too much (IMO) towards the dumbed down Mac OS. If most people knew enough about the operating system there would be a lot less windows issues, because most of the issues are user inflicted. Asking users to become smarter to use a computer is never going to happen.
I will paraphrase this comment for you.
"I have looked at video footage of Windows 7. I am a linux fan boy. I will not try Windows 7. I love linux."
Another thing is that vista and 7 is that they are version 6 and 6.1 respectively. That's much less a difference than xp to 7.
So basically if you are still using xp you will have to flex your abilities to adapt a bit more than if you had vista.
As for me, once I retrained myself to use vista I would never go back to xp. Probably will be the same with 7.
Yeah that's pretty much exactly what I did. Left Linux as main desktop after about a year for a couple months to use Vista, then Win7 came out and I used that for maybe a month before I yawned back to Linux, where I have full control - like you said.
Honestly, I don't care if some people don't use Linux. I'm perfectly fine with the number using it now. I just wish it were more known and respected
I7 920, 6Gb Ram etc...
Odd. I too am running XP, 7, and Ubuntu (technically Ubuntu Studio 8.10), but more and more I'm using Windows less. I'll probably buy Windows 7 on day one, get rid of XP for good, while still only using Windows 7 for testing code, gaming, and the occasional app that only works with Windows.
My personal system is a Core 2 Quad 3.0 machine with 8 gigs of ram. as such vista's super fetch does great things.
Not really, I think it is more Windows 98 -> Windows Me (minus the shameful instability). It looks a bit different, and XP SP2 looks the same as vanilla XP except for the Windows loading bar going from green to blue.
I agree with Petesonic too: Linux is nice and all, but I have spent far longer trying to tango with it than actually doing anything useful. I have Vista for work
Only thing i wonder is, some games, programs ect require vista xp. How long will it be until windows 7 is compatible with those. That should have been changed a long time ago
You're asking why a piece of software, still in it's beta stages without a Release Candidate (it may not even release this year), doesn't have the full support of all the software you like to use?
Er yeah, thats why MS has extended XP for retail... You don't own/run companies with dozens, hundreds or thousands of computers. A properly setup XP computer is just as weak or strong as Vista... in a sense, vista is more idiot proof - to a point.
I really need to start using Linux...