Where is Windows Going?
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009Windows Vista is definitely a drain on any system, and I’ve heard from tons of people how much faster their systems were once they wiped out Vista and replaced it with XP. It would make sense, since XP doesn’t have Aero or the visual eye candy of Vista and all that does is just eat memory. With more memory available – your computer is going to run faster! This blog post I read today said that Windows XP even exceeds Windows 7′s performance!
One of the features that Vista touted was the built-in partition manager, but guess what – there’s a Freeware paritition manager for Windows XP too! On the other hand there have been some developments in the Linux desktop and netbook mini-notebook fronts as well. You have entire countries now wanting to throw out Windows, as Russia wants to develop a national Linux OS! But on the other hand this blog post reports that HP drops Linux netbooks in Europe. If you think that’s true then maybe it’s Google to the rescue, and there could be a mass onslaught of netbooks running Android software in the very near future!
In all my blog reading this week, the funniest thing I read was that Steve Ballmer thinks Enterprise Customers will play hell with users for sticking with Windows XP. In his words, the users will cry foul because they aren’t “getting the same OS they have at home”. Steve – look around, people are buying brand new netbooks and sub-compacts with XP loaded every day by the thousand!
