Recent content by Lengore

Radenight can you please tell us what your "non-ancient" hardware comprises? My ancient kit, previously described, is faster than most of the PCs being sold currently. If the prime purpose of a new version of an operating system is to render existing hardware obsolete then you are just the...

I agree with you entirely Geoff. I bought my first PC in 1984 and have used most versions of DOS and Windows. XP is the best version of Windows I have used. Both Vista and 7 I find offer no real advantages and have many irritations of totally unnecessary changes causing users to waste time...

It may well be that the development from now on will be mainly directed towards performance however Radenight is claiming a huge improvement with the current RC which is at variance with my experience.

I find this rather puzzling. I have run comparison benchmarks on my PC on which I can dual boot into RC or XP. I find the performance on all the bechmarks I have tried just about the same. My mobo is an Asus P5B-E, the CPU is a Core 2 Duo E8400 (3.0GHz) and the disk system is a pair of WD...

Microsoft and user feedback I am sceptical of Microsoft paying serious attention to such forums as this. I suspect that making RC so freely available until June next year is a selling exercise. The more people that become familiar with Windows 7 in advance of its formal release the greater the...