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The Big War Windows 7 vs Windows Vista vs Windows XP
“Windows 7 will be vista but a whole lot better.” I still remember those words by Mr. Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft said in the
ITxpo. While Windows 7 has
only now launched, it barely feels like that. This time Microsoft has
involved testers in such an extensive way, that for many people Windows
7 is already a familiar experience, after all, it has been around for
nearly a year.
Windows 7 has changed little since its first beta release back in
January 2009, which is all the more remarkable as it means that the
operating system was nearly done by then. They have abandoned the
search for a clever name, and gone for a clever operating system
instead!
The biggest advantage of the extended public beta testing period of
Windows 7 has been to the people who "tested" it, and essentially got a
free licensed version of Windows for a year. However a lot of the
feedback and bugs discovered during the beta period of Windows 7 was
actually accommodated into Release Candidate which came afterwards.
While Windows 7 is
essentially a minor update to Windows Vista, it has some significant
and positive changes which have turned the utter failure of Vista to
the critical acclaim it has received. Nearly every version of Windows
has been considered to be too bloated for its time, and for the very
first time, we have a version of windows which can run on a lower
configuration than its predecessor!
I have already written the review you can read it HERE
I decide to do a full on test on Windows 7 VS. Windows Vista VS. Windows XP and here are the Test results.
TEST SETUP- 1
RAM- 512 MB DDR2 @
800 MHz
Processor- Intel
Pentium 4 @ 2.0 GHz
HDD- 160 GB IDE @
7200 RPM
GPU- Onboard ATI
Radeon 64 MB Shared Memory
OS-Windows 7 Ultimate RTM 32-bit, Windows Vista Ultimate SP 2 32-bit,Windows XP Pro. SP 3 32-bit
TEST RESULTS
TESTS
Windows 7
Windows Vista Ultimate
SP2
Windows XP
Sp3
Time taken for Fresh Installation
39 Min.
Refused To Install
47 Min.
First Boot Duration
45 Sec.
NA
30 Sec.
First Shutdown Duration
19 Sec.
NA
14 Sec.
HDD Spaced Taken for Fresh Installation
7.2 GB
NA
1.5 GB
Program Launch Speed (Photoshop CS3)
12.2 Sec.
NA
16.8 Sec.
Shutdown Speed after Program Installation
22 Sec.
NA
20 Sec.
Boot Speed after Program Installation
46 Sec.
NA
25 Sec.
*NOTE>> I did not use any benchmark utility,
instead relied on real world and real time tests with real applications.
