Seems maybe a speedup for chess programs, probably small.
Under the hood, Microsoft said it improved the speed of the system and cut the amount of memory it needs to run.
Windows 7 will ship in both client and server versions with the client versions available in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
Windows 7 Microsoft is intending to increase performance on systems with multiple cores. Currently software often cannot take full advantage of multiple cores due to the way in which the software is written and executed. The program will fail if it is not synchronised across all cores, this is why greater parallelism is required.
There will be a noticeable increase in system performance if the load created by executing programs is shared across multiple cores where available.
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Re: Windows 7 speedup
Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
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7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
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Re: Windows 7 speedup
I count a few more:mathmoi wrote:Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
5: Windows 98
6: Windows Millenium
7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mi ... s_versions
Windows ME was the worst one of all.
It has to rank right up there with Microsoft Bob.
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Well, I did not count the NT version priors to Windows XP and the minors release like Windows 3.1.
But you get my point Windows 7 is not the seventh release of Windows.
But you get my point Windows 7 is not the seventh release of Windows.
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Re: Windows 7 speedup
Windows 7 is just the new marketing name. Each version of Windows had some internal version number. Windows 95-Millenium were 4.x, XP is 5.x, Vista is 6.x.mathmoi wrote:Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
5: Windows 98
6: Windows Millenium
7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
Rumor is that Windows 7, confusingingly, will be internally Windows 6.1
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Re: Windows 7 speedup
You may be right.plattyaj wrote:Windows 7 is just the new marketing name. Each version of Windows had some internal version number. Windows 95-Millenium were 4.x, XP is 5.x, Vista is 6.x.mathmoi wrote:Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
5: Windows 98
6: Windows Millenium
7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
Rumor is that Windows 7, confusingingly, will be internally Windows 6.1
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For the exact version info, use "winver" command.
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Re: Windows 7 speedup
Just like the calendar. "September" is the 9th month but "sept" is the latin prefix for "7".mathmoi wrote:Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
5: Windows 98
6: Windows Millenium
7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
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Re: Windows 7 speedup
Sure, a new Windows version will be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Everything older just sucks!kgburcham wrote:Seems maybe a speedup for chess programs, probably small.
Under the hood, Microsoft said it improved the speed of the system and cut the amount of memory it needs to run.
Windows 7 will ship in both client and server versions with the client versions available in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
Windows 7 Microsoft is intending to increase performance on systems with multiple cores. Currently software often cannot take full advantage of multiple cores due to the way in which the software is written and executed. The program will fail if it is not synchronised across all cores, this is why greater parallelism is required.
There will be a noticeable increase in system performance if the load created by executing programs is shared across multiple cores where available.
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Re: Windows 7 speedup
Octo = 8Norm Pollock wrote:Just like the calendar. "September" is the 9th month but "sept" is the latin prefix for "7".mathmoi wrote:Is it really the seventh realease of windows ?kgburcham wrote:Simply put, this is the seventh release of Windows, so therefore Windows 7 just makes sense.
A beta release is planned for early 2009.
1: windows 1.0
2: Windows 2.0
3: Windows 3.0
4: Windows 95
5: Windows 98
6: Windows Millenium
7: Windows XP
8: Windows Vista
9: Windows 7
Nov = 9
Dec = 10
There was a time when the year begun on march ...
Where's windows 2000 in this list ???
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I agree Bo. I really like my windows xp pro 64.
I have dual boot with 2 hard drives. I have 32 bit windows xp pro on one hard drive and windows xp pro 64 on the other. I set the default system boot, 64 bit. So anytime I want to compare the 32 to the 64 running a chess program, I have that option. Also my video software is 32 bit so I use both. Works good for me. Very fast and I keep the operating system clean for speed. I did not purchase any version of Vista, yet. I might try Windows 7 to compare speed when it is released.
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I have dual boot with 2 hard drives. I have 32 bit windows xp pro on one hard drive and windows xp pro 64 on the other. I set the default system boot, 64 bit. So anytime I want to compare the 32 to the 64 running a chess program, I have that option. Also my video software is 32 bit so I use both. Works good for me. Very fast and I keep the operating system clean for speed. I did not purchase any version of Vista, yet. I might try Windows 7 to compare speed when it is released.
kgburcham