Windows 7 is what Windows Vista should have been , what we hoped it would be . The Batman Begins to Vista ’s Batman and Robin . While superficially both are kind of the same ( Batman ! ) , there ’s a completely different thought process appendage at study . Our walkthrough and videos showed you how the new drug user experience is something to be excite about ; now we want to show you what it is under the bonnet that enables the completely hypeworthy experience to be all it can be . And why Windows 7 will totally demolish Vista ’s kidneys . Microsoft is cheerfully explicit about 7 killing Vista . At PDC , the head word of Windows performance Gabriel Aul laid it out just in a presentment entitle “ Raising the measure ” :
• If an program or gimmick streamlet on Vista , it should lam on Win 7 . • If a organization lam Windows Vista , should go Windows 7 even quicker . • notebook should get unspoiled electric battery spirit in Windows 7 . • Windows 7 will be more reliable than Vista SP1 from Day 1 .
Yep , not only does it havea more usable UIthanks to snazzy element like peep through , a whole new taskbar and just coarse sense simplifications , Microsoft admirably pulls an Apple here — its next release of Windows will run even quicker than the previous one , an unprecedented effort for Microsoft . That ’s because it ’s a whole passel fresh about rent care of what ’s going on in the background while you ’re gaping at some fresh UI element that ’s both pretty and useful . For instance , Vista ’s windowpane computer storage manager pay the same amount of RAM to every window you have receptive : No matter how many windows are unfastened , it play like every one of them is seeable and full screen door size , even if you had them minimise or in the background . This ate up a ton of resources , peculiarly if you ’re like us and leave a billion windowpane receptive . Windows 7 ’s window memory manager does n’t do that — only the seeable windows use video resource now . That mean you could actuallyrun Windows 7 with 1 GB of RAM — unlike Vista , where having anything less than 2 GB is totally retardiculous .
Windows 7 is also direction more brainy when it issue forth to crashy apps and errors , in a couple different ways . in all likelihood the most impressive sounding — though we ’ll have to see how well it make in tangible life — is app program crash resiliency . If an app doss more than once , Windows 7 learn how it should pass the app to ward off that special train wreck . Also , error written report are actually useful : The Problem Steps Recorder watch what you do to jaunt an error — if you may restate it after turning on the vertical flute , that is — and it sire a useful , detailed mistake report in a spoken communication that actually resemble English ! And 7 just plain practices safer sexual practice — gadget driver are sandboxed , so nastiness from one cruddy set wo n’t infect another . Having learned its example , Microsoft is working with hardware Creator to bear all update drivers through Windows Update instead of , say , Samsung ’s byzantine excuse of a website . None of Windows 7 ’s awesomeness topic , though , if all that careen is too much for your notebook computer ’s battery to handle . Vista ’s power management was definitely good than XP ’s , and Windows 7 ’s is remarkably well still . Part of it is just that whole smarter background management , which for battery life does thing like telephone dial down the C.P.U. more often , use less succus to play a received def DVD , automatically bend off your Ethernet adapter , vulgar sense stuff like that . But it does n’t just do all this fancy vigour - saving jujitsu behind your back ( though it can ) . Windows 7 is equal to of deliver a barrage fire efficiency report that breaks down in detail what ’s champ on your battery — power - slurp hardware , vampire - y processes , the works . All of this reverberate a new mentality about the overall substance abuser experience that seems like it just got result on Vista ’s cutting elbow room floor , for whatever reason . Vista was just going through the motions of a fresh OS . If Microsoft in reality deport on what they ’ve evidence and are promise for Windows 7 — and all signs seem to point that style — it’ll in reality have the heart and person of one , even if it ’s wearing the same make of apparel . Something you still wanna know ? ship any question about Windex , Billy G or pass G ’s to[email protected ] , with “ Giz Explains ” in the open line .
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