BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft preps Windows 7 release
My favourite bit is -
"We were able to shave 400 milliseconds off the shutdown time by slightly trimming the WAV file shutdown music. "
Not 4 seconds, but a HUGE 400 milliseconds!
Three years of “development” and it comes down to that. Man those guys really know their stuff! rotfl!.
Windows 7 will also have “comparable system requirements” to Vista,
So, it’s equally bloated, right? Geee, I run 11.1 with KDE 4.2.2 (no desktop effects) on an old P4 Northwood @ 2.4 ghz with only 512 gigs of RAM and man is that thing fast
Nice @growbag
What a joke. 400ms. I have Win7 in a VM. (Just to see what all fuss was about)
Sorry but I just can’t be bothered with windows anymore. I’ve had it up to here (Points to top of head)
I wouldn’t mind having 512GB of RAM also. How much did it cost you? 
U Know I read right thru that - it entered the brain:P as MB. I saw another thread earlier with a similarly bizarre statement about RAM. Had me chuckle this.
No wonder it’s fast @microchip8
lol, my bad. megs I mean 
I don’t think the P4 or the system design can handle 512 gigs 
it’s 'cause nowadays I tend to think of gigabytes and not megabytes, so due to this I mistakenly wrote gigs instead of megs 
Vista=Failure
Windows 7 with XP Mode=Failure and legacy compatibility with a decade old OS is crazy.
M$ is a joke man.
Micro$oft always cracks such “jokes”. I remember this one from the first half of 1990s when they released Visual C++ 1.5.
There were 7 major features they highlighted about that version. One of them was this - “The installation program now more accurately computes the time required to install the program”.
Wow, what an incredible feature for a C++ programmer!!!
What really cracked me up is that I sat and watched the provided video as well.
It is some college bimbo telling how cool it is that she can now put 2 MS internet explorer windows side by side to “compare the fabulous windows 7 ready out of the box digital cameras”.
So the bottom line is: they shortened the shutdown music to gain 4 seconds in shutting down, learned how to tile windows, and has the same hardware requirements as Vista?
Well, I’m convinced :sarcastic:.
Oh I get it, they changed the name! Boy am I thick :.
I suppose they could start writing viruses for XP themselves to herd people along the upgrade path. Except that they’ve decided to make Windows 7 compatible with them.
Bad luck chaps.
Isn’t 400 milliseconds 4/10 of a second?
You could be right there, I must have missed a “0” out ;).
I was thinking 100ms=1second, but maybe it’s 1000ms=1second. It sounds about right now I spell it out.
****, and 4 seconds was so much time to save and all! I knew it was too good to be true
Oh, like I’ll notice that when it already takes ~15 minutes for my (work) Windows XP to boot UP!
Incredible that how many times M$ sells this kind of crap to the masses. Sadly the masses buy into it.
MS is the master of capitalism using technology as their chosen tool, not masters of technology. Right?
I like this thread. Very funny!
Wouldn’t a better solution be to disable all enterprise level services (for instance, ‘Server’, ‘Remote Registry’ etc.) and then give the remaining services 5 seconds to terminate safely during shut-down? It’s what I do with my Vista drive although SuSE still starts/shuts-down faster.
The Windows 7 Starter Edition will have limitations on how many applications can be used concurrently on a machine in order to preserve performance.
That is truly sad. I think it is total BS, it just doesn’t make any sense to me. I read another article somewhere that talked about this a little more in detail(I’m sorry I don’t remember where it is or was) and they said that the starter edition could be upgraded to remove the restriction by forking up a little $$$ suggesting that it is a way to get MS to make you spend yet even more money for their over priced OS. Now I am not going to say that windows is horrible or bad, but I will say that it is not worth the money you spend on it.
But now here they are saying that there will be limitations on how many apps will run to “preserve performance.” Well, what about when you spend your hard earned $$$ to unlock the limitations, what about preserving performance then? I think it is just total BS and another way for MS to get more of your money.
I just find it sad that they would offer a budget priced OS with the limitation of running only 3 apps(that was the number I read in the other article) It is obvious all they want you to do is spend even more money to buy a more over priced version with feature sets that are really not worth the money.
Is it me or does MS seem to be scrambling with w7? They all of a sudden care what their consumers think and aparently have listened to them. Seems an odd play, I think Microsoft knows they have found them selves up poop creek with out a paddle… or a boat, and they are trying to save what they can.
> Is it me or does MS seem to be scrambling with w7? They all of a sudden
> care what their consumers think and aparently have listened to them.
> Seems an odd play, I think Microsoft knows they have found them selves
> up poop creek with out a paddle… or a boat, and they are trying to
> save what they can.
They need to increase revenue and they have no new ideas so they come up
with innovative billing and licensing.
I think they are just trying to not compete with the traditional laptop line or move people into the larger systems for the added “bang for the buck $$$”
Now they’ve lifted it so either
or -
I hope they keep their pricing headache… gives more incentive for people to move to Linux! Don’t have to worry about that stuff (just codecs, but that’s another issue)