Vista quicker than Windows 7

by V3.co.uk staff  |  Friday 9 October 2009
Vista quicker than Windows 7

Systems experts with stop watches have poured cold water on Microsoft's claims that its Windows 7 operating system boots up faster than Vista..

Redmond has been marketing Windows 7 on the claim that it can boot up quicker than Vista.

However, Iolo Technologies, which sells PC tune-up software called System Mechanic, said that Windows 7 takes one minute and 34 seconds to become usable, whereas Vista takes only one minute and six seconds.

Iolo explained that most measurements were based on the time it took the desktop to appear. In Windows 7 this is much faster and can be about 40 seconds, but Windows 7 is not actually completely usable at that point.

The company decided to trip its stop watches on the time it takes Windows 7 to become fully usable "with CPU cycles no longer significantly high and a true idle state achieved".

Windows gets slower and slower as time goes on, Iolo added. The firm found that a three-month old machine can take up to a minute longer to boot, or two minutes and 34 seconds.

Windows 7 did outperform Vista at the three-month and six-month marks. But it "trailed the older version significantly" in its earlier boot-up tests.

Iolo plans to release more details on its findings and methodology next week.

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Comments: 3
totoaus
15 October 2009
 I hate benchmarks articles that ignore their limited applicability. This is a classic example, first NO-ONE likes to wait for their PC, but MS has a valid point: the faster they bring up a logon screen so people can start doing things, the happier most people are. If Iolo wants to be pedantic and quote a different timing, then I have to ask: What is their reason?
Obviously it is some self-serving argument to PERSUADE people to get and use their products, like eveyone else.


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Systems experts with stop watches have poured cold water on Microsoft's claims that its Windows 7 operating system boots up faster than Vista..

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.:Cyb3rGlitch:.
15 October 2009
 Apart from the fact that the RTM has only been available for 1 month or so for 'testing', this is a clear publicity stunt so people buy the companies shitastic speed-up software.
blockcentre
16 October 2009
.:Cyb3rGlitch:. wrote:
Apart from the fact that the RTM has only been available for 1 month or so for 'testing', this is a clear publicity stunt so people buy the companies shitastic speed-up software.


Exactly.

From the testing that I have done with my low spec Acer laptop, 7 clearly outperforms Vista.
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