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Windows 7 RC slowdown
May. 19th, 2009 09:40 amI've been running Windows 7 for months now - first the beta, now the RC - and loving it. Much better than Vista, and better than XP in many ways too.
The beta was fast - a distinct, noticeable improvement over Vista - but buggy of course. I still found it good enough to stick with rather than dump.
Now that I'm running the release candidate, I find it less buggy which is great, but I find Outlook performance significantly slower. It's very weird. I can't find the pattern or reason yet.
Even worse, I can't find a good way to submit feedback on the RC, because essentially it's too late: Microsoft is releasing Win7 in a few months now, and there's no time left for new stuff. They pretty much have to just focus on the already complete fixes and changes. So my hardware, designed for XP over three years ago, was perfect for the beta is almost perfect for the RC. Hmmm.
I guess what this really means is I want a new laptop!
Update: just noticed something slow in beta that annoyed the hell out of me that is now super-fast. Hooray! Maybe this balances out.
The beta was fast - a distinct, noticeable improvement over Vista - but buggy of course. I still found it good enough to stick with rather than dump.
Now that I'm running the release candidate, I find it less buggy which is great, but I find Outlook performance significantly slower. It's very weird. I can't find the pattern or reason yet.
Even worse, I can't find a good way to submit feedback on the RC, because essentially it's too late: Microsoft is releasing Win7 in a few months now, and there's no time left for new stuff. They pretty much have to just focus on the already complete fixes and changes. So my hardware, designed for XP over three years ago, was perfect for the beta is almost perfect for the RC. Hmmm.
I guess what this really means is I want a new laptop!
Update: just noticed something slow in beta that annoyed the hell out of me that is now super-fast. Hooray! Maybe this balances out.
