Windows 7 RC slowdown

[c9]

I'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.

Comments

[thespos]

I don't think the Outlook problem is necessarily OS-related. My company forced us to upgrade to Outlook 2007 and the rest of the XML-based MS Office 2007 disasters. Some of us have Vista, some of us still have XP. I have had issues with Outlook from day one - from speed, to inexplicable crashing, to having it remain running in the background even tho it had clearly been closed. And the entire group reports the same sorts of issues.

If it were possible for our infrastructure to handle, I would have stayed with Outlook 2003. As for the rest of MS Office, I continue to use 2003, and use 2007 for the review of documents only. If I receive anything in 2007 format, I immediate save it as a 2003 file so I can confidently edit the thing.

But anyway - this wasn't meant to be an Office diatribe - I just wonder if the issue you are having is unrelated to Windows 7, because they obviously gave no thought to MS Office users when they introduced that upgrade, and there have been issues with it.

[c9.livejournal.com]

I've used Outlook 2007 (both RTM and service-packed) on the exact same hardware under XP, Vista RTM, Vista SP1, Win7 beta, and Win7 RC. Only under the current config do I see these weird slowdowns in Outlook. They're not insane, and most people wouldn't notice them, but the lag was not there before, so it bugs me.

Outlook 2007 does have troubles for sure, but I've found good performance and good behaviour far more than bad. Hopefully you're fully patched, because I think that has a big impact too.

[kdborg.livejournal.com]

I also tried the Windows 7 beta. It was nice, clean. I only noticed a couple of minor bugs.

Vista SP1 seems faster than XP if you use the Classic desktop. Aero kinda killed performance.