More details about Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system emerged Wednesday. The OS will have a shorter boot time; offer greater reliability; more efficient memory usage and improved battery life for laptops, according to Microsoft’s Jon DeVaan, Steven Sinofsky and Mike Anguilo, who spoke at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference. Perhaps most significantly, Sinofsky and Anguilo demoed Windows 7 running on a miniature notebook, or netbook, with a 16 GB solid-state drive and 1 GB of random access memory running an Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor.
Windows Vista has 6 flavours, but only one install. Yes, everything and their mother-in-law is installed with all versions, and switched on or off to create a 'version', but the memory footprint remains the combined sum of all versions. A costly architectural miscalculation it now seems, blindly relying on Moore's law to increase computer resources over time.
In contrast, Ubuntu offers different downloads for different versions, so the Ubuntu Mobile version has a smaller memory footprint, some mobile-only applications and lightweight regular applications. Small is beautiful again.
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Can Microsoft Really Shoehorn Windows 7 Into Netbooks?
Posted by: Walaika Haskins November 6, 2008 03:11 PMMore details about Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system emerged Wednesday. The OS will have a shorter boot time; offer greater reliability; more efficient memory usage and improved battery life for laptops, according to Microsoft’s Jon DeVaan, Steven Sinofsky and Mike Anguilo, who spoke at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference. Perhaps most significantly, Sinofsky and Anguilo demoed Windows 7 running on a miniature notebook, or netbook, with a 16 GB solid-state drive and 1 GB of random access memory running an Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor.
In contrast, Ubuntu offers different downloads for different versions, so the Ubuntu Mobile version has a smaller memory footprint, some mobile-only applications and lightweight regular applications. Small is beautiful again.