For instance, a driver that fails to let Windows turn off a Wi-Fi chip when users aren't surfing the Web could accidently result in poor battery life. Jack Gold, an independent research analyst, says that it's still too early to condemn Windows 7. Drivers are not written by Microsoft, but by the component makers themselves, he said.
Rather than simply recycling their Vista drivers, the hardware vendors need the final release of Windows 7, which only arrived last month , and "a little time to perform their magic. While existing Windows XP netbooks may miss out on some of these optimizations, future models that ship with Windows 7 pre-installed may eventually have the same or longer battery life than XP that Microsoft has promised.
With all the resources Windows 7 will use on a device, optimization will take a little while to complete," Gold said. Here are the latest Insider stories. So why would I want to run Ubuntu on a netbook when you can't watch videos on arguably the most popular website for online videos? But to the users, its not Adobe's problem. Adobe works fine on their windows machine, so it must be Linux's fault that they can't watch their favorite video's on Hulu. Its a nasty double edged sword, since Adobe won't care till it hits a critical mass of users, and it won't hit a critical mass, if its crap.
I have the Flash issue even on a dual core laptop running Ubuntu 9. It's annoying. Every time I mention it, though, the same answer comes up: it's a problem with flash, not Ubuntu. That may be true, but it's still making it much more annoying and difficult to watch Flash videos, no matter whose fault it is.
Average User tm is not going to say "Oh well. I can live without being able to watch youtube videos easily. So, in my interpretation, the Windows 7 netbook had slightly shorter battery life, and performed slightly worse in all but two benchmarks. One of those two was dealing with "next generation gaming performance" that really isn't point of netbooks, and the other was essentially identical to the XP performance.
And the conclusion the reviewers take from this is that Windows 7 is good? Just because it isn't as bad as Vista, and isn't too much worse than XP? With these sorts of results, XP is going to be with us for a long time.
Why is it so hard for Microsoft to make something comparable? You would have a hard time convincing me that security can be implemented at no CPU cost and running IE in a sandbox has huge advantages. So what's not to like?
Yes, that's good, isn't it? A 7 year old OS vs. I'd say that's pretty good. Hardware is better, so OS's can plan on using more of it. Bare in mind that netbook hardware is most certainly anything but current.
Performance is roughly equivalent to a 5 year old Pentium M. The only difference is that it has been shrunk and power consumption reduced to the point where 5 year old mid class laptop has been reduced significantly in size.
Running Win 7 on a modern mobile Core 2 Duo CPU would give a much better comparison, and really show the true benefits it has. Now Microsoft is facing the same game from the other end. Very carefully timed announcement by Google that all the OS you would need to run a netbook is coming soon.
Vendors do not commit wholeheartedly to Microsoft. Device driver writers do not just hack something that will work in Windows alone and be done with it.
Consumers also do not rush out to buy the latest and greatest. Corporations add another action to their evaluation. That buys some time. Most vendors cite Chrome OS and demand hefty discount for Win7 in netbook market.
Microsoft is forced to sell its OS at bargain basement prices in the fastest growing segment of PC market. Let's see Microsoft has addressed most of the pitfalls of Windows Vista on a netbook by increasing battery life and performance to be very close to that of the lighter-weight Windows XP. What a fracking joke! That the new product is almost as good as the 7 year old one that it replaces.
MS isn't improving the performance or security of their operating system. Instead, they are simply cramming more products in and calling the monstrosity an "operating system" - in an effort to expand into more markets. MS just fixed and tweaked what was wrong with Vista without promising or adding a bajillion new features.
Security is a lot better, with many exploits for XP that are coming out not working on Vista or 7. Intel has announced 8-core CPUs. And yet the "new" its basically a rebranded Vista Windows 7 will barely take advantage of any of them other than the first.. Why link to outdated speculation? Check these real tests and benchmarks out instead.
Even Slashdot linked to it. All this astroturfed media about how great Win7 is and how it is going to kick butt on netbooks. They always forget the one critical problem. The only way XP clawed market share away from the penguin was by Microsoft basically giving it away. They aren't planning on giving 7 away so there is going to be a five tiered price structure on netbooks and that is about three too many.
Does anyone think WinCE will be the big winner in this market? Ok, maybe they can horn their way in by Xmas '11 but the rumormill hasn't been talking WinCE it has been Android and a little Ubuntu with most trying to roll their own.
Go look at the HP Mini Mi if you want to see how low x86 hardware can get without the Microsoft tax. Hasn't shipped yet but we can assume it will cost at least as much as XP. Odds are it will be mostly useful as a platform to harvest the customer's credit card to upgrade to a more complete edition. In this economy?
Anyone remember why the netbook revolution got started in the first place? Wasn't price as big a factor as the form factor? Ok, so how will the marketplace solve the 'too many SKU problem'?
Starter will probably get ditched as a customer relations nightmare. Linux on x86 will probably finish its vanishing act from retail although a few online sellers might continue if the sales are there. That gets from five to three. If most pay XP dies, if not Vista's copy progress dialog doesn't even tell you the name of the file you're copying any more. It only tells you part of the path it comes from. XP gives you the filename and full path. If you move a folder containing files to a different place that already has a folder with the same name, XP merges them properly.
Even with UAC turned off, Vista comes up with a supremely annoying dialog to confirm each file in turn, and even after a succesful move, the source folder is left behind. If there's even one file in a folder that Vista thinks might be a media file, it presents the file list of the whole folder with media attributes instead of 'all files' attributes by default.
It does this every time you create a new foler and you can't turn off or even force it to use a particular profile. Vista still forgets window settings even if you set "remember each windows settings". This is a problem way back to Windows95 I think. I just tried for kicks Click that, popup doesnt happen again. Thats with a folder with a very complex directory tree and thousands of files I tried with a backup, basically. You're right about the file copy progress though.
It gives you the entir. Well not quite. There are bit Atom processors. However, they're currently not being used in the mini-notebooks. Those are currently use the N series of chips which are bit only. But ok, whatever, fuck it, Intel was still flogging bit CPUs for some reason, and people are morons. But Windows 7? Because having 2 versions makes shit harder for those who make hardware, for consumers who are confused, and for software developers, who will take the lazy route and support bit primarily, while shafting the bit users with shoddy, half-assed implementations and support.
In many cases you can get more than double the performance vs bit anything to do with photos, audio, video, etc. The market of "people not ready to upgrade their bit hardware looking for a new OS" is statistically insignificant. Anyone know if the XP-mode of Windows 7 is available in the bit version? I haven't tried it. PAE, which allows up to 36GB on bit.
Intel has another bit architecture, dontchaknow They didn't license the amd64 instruction until Microsoft decided to embrace "X Intel Atom - N and Z series cannot execute the x instruction set.
Aren't netbooks in which those Atom processors are used major part of Windows 7 implementation? Isn't it what this article is about? Where is the securty? Is this the right hotel? Even if you could, not all of the Atom processors support EMT64, though the most-popular ones do.
The i has been around for 20 years now, amd64 not so long. The compilers haven't quite caught up. To Microsoft's credit, they are requiring bit for a lot of their enterprise products now. The Aspire One is great for getting things done, whether checking email, managing online accounts or chatting with friends.
The pre-installed software is separated by functions and presented in four distinct areas on the Home screen--Connect, Works, Fun and Files. Each area has space for three applications, and you can easily personalize the applications.
Home Windows XP Laptops. Windows XP Laptops. Show Out of stock. There are clear improvements Windows 10 has over Windows XP. First, it has a search function on the Quick Access Toolbar. Second, there are tiles in the "Start Menu". Third, the icons in the toolbar are more intuitive. It is possible I have grown as a power user and this is why I can tell what each icon represents. However, it is just as possible that Windows is doing a better job of picking icons for things like battery, speakers, WIFI, and the Cloud.
I have been using Windows for the majority of my life. I knew full well that one day I would no longer be able to use Windows XP. There are certain features I miss. To be overly honest about my fear, I did not want to tell Microsoft about how I desire certain features in XP to replace the newer features in 10, because my opinion should not override the needs of other Windows consumers.
Something I have feared that happens all too often in the business world is a handful of consumers giving feedback on products and their feedback changes the product so it works great for the few and is a downgrade for the many. All this is why I would love to create a Pros and Cons list here on Microsoft's forum. Hopefully, we will figure out a way to let Microsoft know how we perceive Windows. Granted, the subject is about Windows 10 and Windows XP, because it is useful to have a concrete example of two products, I hope that eventually, we extend this subject to all Windows OSes.
I believe that settings is a great solution as to how to let people customize their Windows experience. Unlike my wish to address the things 10 does right, first, I am about to address the things that feel like downgrades to me. First, in Windows XP, I could do a bunch of things with my keyboard. Suppose, I am looking at a folder. In that folder, I wish to create a new MS Word document.
I would only need to press the alt key, a series of buttons, and voila a new word document would appear.
0コメント