Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani, in her test of startup times, found that Windows 7, Windows Vista’s successor, is 20% faster than Windows Vista and and as fast as Windows XP. The hardware used was Intel Core 2 Duo(3.16GHz), 4GB of RAM.
The Windows 7 preview copy that was used for the test was handicaped – loaded on an IDE hard drive, while and XP and Vista booted from SATA drives. Also, the test copy was a preview of Windows 7, which is an incomplete, testers edition. As things stand, Windows 7 is slated to be faster than Windows XP – unless Microsoft changes things drastically.
I personally would much rather have a safer, more stable Windows 7 than a Windows 7 with faster startup times, but this is a much-needed start. As I noted in a previous post, Microsoft seems to have a habit of churning out operating systems with quality alternating between good and worse.
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