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November 11, 2008

InfoWorld’s initial benchmarks for Windows 7 testing release are not what most of us hoped they would be.

One would think Microsoft wouldn’t dare release another dud OS in the performance arena after the bad press Vista has received but it looks like they may be trying the Mojave experiment all over again.   The Mojave experiment was basically people being shown Vista not really interacting with the PCs much in the hopes that they might not have actually used Vista (or much of any computer) and think it was OK despite all the bad Vista press.

It looks like Windows 7 uses so much of the Vista code the performance isn’t really any better than Vista.   How is it that Microsoft didn’t get the message with Vista that businesses want a fast OS?   If the OS doesn’t boot faster, shutdown faster, copy files faster, open applications faster than Windows XP there is very little reason for businesses to slow down their computers with another OS than XP.   Apple on the other hand has gotten the message and is not only producing faster OS’s but is slowly making them better for business environments.    Fortunately this is only a beta of Vista they are testing but MS failed to listen to the beta testers when they were told Vista was slow – could they possibly make the exact same mistake that encouraged them to spend $300 million to try and convince people Vista wasn’t bad?

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