RE: OT: Redmond

So can we speculate that M$ is making Vista/win7 less 
        resource intensive so it can compete in the netbook 
        environment.
I understand it takes up about 10 Gigs of 
        space.  
Would be nice to have an O/S that requires less and 
        is more efficient.  Maybe we can recycle some old hardware 
        :)
        Josh Coffman <joshcoffman@gmail.com> 
        wrote:
        From: 
          Josh Coffman <joshcoffman@gmail.com>
Subject: 
          Re: OT: Redmond
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          Friday, January 16, 2009, 9:59 AM
          From what I hear, and this is from .Net devs who 
          are running win7, its described as "Vista without the crap". It 
          performs nearly as fast as WinXP and with far lighter hardware 
          requirements than Vista. (which isn't hard)  From the screenshots 
          I've seen, it has a lighter look and feel that Vista, but that's just 
          "make-up".  I'm going to make a vmware machine with it so I'll 
          see for myself.  Since it will be on the same machine (mac) as my 
          WinXP vm (which I do use a lot), I'll be able to compare them 
          easily.
Vista was a near daily frustration, either I've gotten 
          used to the pain or its gotten a little less painful. Probably both. I 
          still don't like Vista. I have to deal with it though. So I hope Win7 
          is better, a lot better, because windows a part of my job. 
As 
          an aside, I use Vista, WinXP, and Mac OSX a lot. Ubuntu holds itws own 
          againts all of them. I've read some people think Win7 is a linux 
          killer (speaking of the netbook market). I don't buy that at all. 
          On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Joe Fleming 
          <joe@selectitaly.com> 
          wrote:
            I'm really curious what all the fuss over 
            windows 7 is all about. I mean, it's just vista with a few changes, 
            and from what I can tell those changes are pretty small. I always 
            think it's funny seeing sites talk about how bad vista is and how 
            much better 7 is, considering it's really nothing more than a point 
            release/service pack with a new name. Apparently m$ actually DOES 
            know how to play the marketing game. It'll be interesting to see how 
            it's received by consumers and the press when it's finally released 
            I guess. Me, I still don't have any problem running XP; works 
            beautifully in VirtualBox ;).
James 
            Finstrom wrote: 
            I like to imagine it is because I am 
              important or that its because I went to church with many Microsoft 
              cube gnomes when I lived in Washington but none of these things 
              are true simply because I am on a Microsoft Spam list I got an 
              invitation and license to download and play with Windows 7 beta. 
              So let me share the expierience and overview so far I like things 
              with the word free even if it is only as in beer and only for a 
              short time, Anyhow with fear and the smell of danger that 
              acompanies all things that say Microsoft and Beta in the same 
              typography I clicked the shiny banner answered a few questions and 
              got a key + link.  the minimum requirements say 1Gig ram and 
              128M video  and blah blah something something okay whatever 
              click.... Anyhow the download comes up says this could take 
              several days depending on your provider and the download size 
              is...... 2.44 GIG holy redhat batman I need to go buy a dvd to 
              burn this down to, well so much for free. Anyhow it is chewing up 
              some bandwith that can be better allocated but I am going to grab 
              it if for nothing else just to see if http://xkcd.com/528/  is 
              true...
James Finstrom
Rhino Equipment 
              Corp.
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