Bill Gates Promises Windows 7 Will Be Less of a Resource Hog
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 12.5.2008
There are but scarce details pointing the direction in which Microsoft is taking the development of Windows 7, and the operating system, for that matter.
Nevertheless, if Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is to be believed, Windows 7 is going to be less of a resource hog than its predecessor, although such a comparison can only be speculated upon and was not actually stated. On May 7, 2008, one day after the Redmond company dropped Windows XP SP3 via Windows Update and the Download Center, Gates was in Tokyo, Japan, at the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium and he mentioned the fact that there was a focus in making Windows 7 play well with less physical system memory.
"I'm very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient, and have lots more connections up to the mobile phone, so those scenarios connect up well to make it a great platform for the best gaming that can be done, to connect up to the thing being done out on the Internet, so that, for example, if you have two personal computers, that your files automatically are synchronized between them, and so you don't have a lot of work to move that data back and forth," he commented.
At CES 2008, Gates refused to answer a question inquiring as to which software product he wished Microsoft had perfected more before releasing it on the market. At that time, the Microsoft co-founder only said that he would provide an answer after the next version of the Windows client becomes available. According to the latest details Gates unveiled, Microsoft will take Windows 7 where Windows Vista never managed to go, making it even greener, offering increased performance and even swallow less RAM. Of course, at the same time, the Windows 7 PC to Windows 7 PC bridging capabilities come courtesy of Live Mesh, Microsoft's recently released cloud synchronization platform.
"Obviously we'd all love it if people had more PCs per average, and so making that simple is important. Also the effort to upgrade, I think that's an area we got a lot of feedback in Vista, that we need to invest in that, and we're going to make that very, very simple for people. So Vista is doing well, and we're hard at work putting even more investment now in the version that comes after that," Gates added.
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Comments(9)
the idea is to make the requirements of the os so that it forces one to buy newer
hardware and thus increase profits as well. after all, windows is a consumer product.
be great if the new wos7 has all the drivers from all the vendors on dvd with the os.
sick and tired of trying to find drivers for my new system and software bugs, ie - premium
only recognizing 3gig when i have 4gig installed.
all 32-bit os's are limited to 3 gigs of ram instead of 4, not just vista.
microsoft has to worry about windows being compatible with literally millions of different
hardware configurations. do you think that it would even be feasible to fit each and every
driver in the world on one or two dvd's?! get real. apple can brag about that cuz osx
only has to work on about a dozen different configurations.
sick and tired of
looking for drivers? well then i guess none of your systems are ever stable. you should be
checking for new drivers for all your peripherals at least once every two months and
running windows update to make sure new drivers can get updated more frequently than that
if they're available.
vista already includes heaps of drivers. if u still dont have ur driver, its not ms
fault, its the manafacturer. they have had like a year and a bit to get their act
together. im running 64-bit vista with asus components and its 2 years old and i hav all
the drivers and enjoy using vista everyday. xd
and you will suddenly realize how bloated windows (particularly vista) is.
bill gates has lied from the moment he started microsoft whenever it came to promising
anything. he's the "vaporware king" of tech. i, for one, will never believe anything he
says until i see it.
if you are still running windows as your primary os, you are part of the problem of
vendor lock-in, driver issues, performance problems etc etc. start using linux and promote
the ideals - open source, open apis and all of this will be history. ubuntu is oh so close
to being linux that's ready for everyone, so go on and help speed up the process
at yoyoma: 32 bit windows can use up to 4 gigabytes of ram. please don't post such
nonsense as "xp can only support 3gb..blah blah blah". there is a maximum of 3gb virtual
address space for the application code itself, with 1gb in this case used for the kernel
componenents (on top of the 3gb). the rest of the address space can be used for whatever a
large address space aware application wants by dynamically remapping this memory into the
application address space. (within, in the case of the non server windows versions the 4gb
physical address limit forced in for example the hal for sp2.) bottom line: there is no
2.2, 2.75. 3.2 or whatever gb number limit for physical memory you've perhaps seen for
xp, other than 4 for a current version of xp ( or who knows for an incorrectly engineered
motherboard/chipset.)
i never said xp can only support 3 gigs of ram. i am also aware of the details you wrote
about. i had other os's like osx and linux in mind. xp is old news.
and i am
also aware of the methods to force a 32-bit os to use all 4 gigs of physical ram.
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This is total BS.
By sjc1963 on 13.05.2008 - 03:05