The main difference is the streamlineing vista codebase for netbook
compatability. And overall optimization on the backend. There is more
but that I know for sure
On 1/16/09, 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
> ;).
>
> -Joe
>
> 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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