Windows 7 was welcomed as a fresh and new beginning, and a final emancipation from woes of Vista for Microsoft, but apparently the new Windows is beginning to increasingly look a lot like the old Windows.
What's worse, of course, is that Windows 7's performance, like previous Windows, is beginning to show the same old performance problems from its past, as Laptop.com documents in recent tests. When it comes to the battery performance of Windows 7, for instance, Windows 7 comes out short, averaging some 47 minutes less than good old XP! Snow Leopard, on the other hand, has been proven to be much better when it comes to battery life than Windows 7.
PCMag.com, in a series of recent tests, discovered that even though Windows 7 easily beats Vista in all of its tested categories, the old and still popular XP stacks up extremely well against the newer OS by trumpeting it in 50% of all of the tests. That certainly is good news for XP, but bad news for Windows 7.
When it comes to boot up time, tests by iolo, PCWorld and ComputerWorld show that Windows 7 can be as much as 42% slower than XP, though it is somewhat faster than Vista.
Yahoo Tech is also reporting that browser speed on the new OS is slower as well. For example, based on aggregate tests of five major browsers, XP still tops the newer OS. XP by an average of 13 percent faster!
As Microsoft scrambles to undue the damage from an employee, who admitted that Windows 7 copied OS X's look and feel (something long obvious even before that confession), it will, I believe, have a much tougher time in the future regarding damage control resulting from an ever increasing number of tests that show that Windows 7 is not quite as the great of an OS as Microsoft would have everyone believe it is!
Much more serious, and damming for Windows 7, is this conclusion of a recent test which states:
" Windows 7 is still virus vulnerable, warns a security specialist.
SophosLabs reported in its security blog that a test Windows 7 system on a clean PC was affected by 80 per cent of viruses.
Sophos' Chester Wisniewski, said engineers loaded a full version of Microsoft's recently launched operating system, and configured it to follow system defaults for UAC (User Account Control) without installing an anti-virus package."
Yes, Windows 7 is definitely better than Vista, but that can easily be said for any OS. Still, when you have one test after another demonstrating that Microsoft's finest isn't quite as fine, in some areas, as XP, and is still plagued by performance and security issues', ones that Redmond proudly insisted it had finally addressed, you have to wonder a little.
As much as I like Windows 7, and as interesting as it seems, it's still no kitty cat. As a guest OS Windows 7 is more than fine, but when it comes to being my primary OS goes, I will take Snow Leopard any old day! It certainly has had its fair share of hic-ups along the way too, but over all, it's still a faster, better performing and a more secure OS than Windows 7 is pretending to be, which, as far as I'm concerned is nothing more than 'Window Dressing' on Microsoft's part!
Sadly, as time goes on, I suspect that we haven't seen the last of these tests or reports, and I'm fully expecting on seeing more and more of them, because, in the end, Windows 7 is just that - Windows, and its still Vista, but in new clothes, and complete with all of the old buggy boo's included, such as Windows infamous registry and DLL's!
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