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Aug 22
Saturday

Speed Tests: Windows 7 Versus Vista

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IMPROVING performance is one of Microsoft’s design goals with Windows 7, and many ahead of schedule reviewers (including ours) have said that the new Windows operating system seems peppier than Vista. But test of the Windows 7 Relief Candidate in our Test Center indicate that while Windows 7 was slightly quicker on our WorldBench 6 performance test suite, users may barely notice the difference.

OSs Head-to-Head

We loaded the Windows 7 Relief Candidate on three systems (two desktops and a laptop) and ran our WorldBench 6 tests on them. Then we compared those results with the ones we obtained from the same three systems running Windows Vista. Each PC was slightly quicker when running Windows 7, but the overall improvement didn’t exceed 5 percent, our threshold for gauging whether a performance change will be noticeable to a predictable user.

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