Windows 7 Promises Better Graphics

August 3, 2009 — Mrs. Mecomber

Well, this is having me look twice at Windows 7, soon to be released in October.

Nvidia product manager Chris Daniel said Windows 7 is “the first Windows operating system to treat the graphics processing unit (GPU) as a real peer to the CPU.”

Daniel, writing in a blog post Friday, said that with the introduction of Windows 7, “Microsoft is really opening up the immense parallel computing horsepower of the GPU natively right in the operating system.”

That could be good news for a range of PC users with heavy graphics requirements, including gamers, engineers, artists, and others.

One key to Windows 7′s graphics performance is a new application programming interface known as DirectX Compute. The API enables computers to take full advantage of the parallel processing power built into today’s high-end cards from Nvidia and other vendors.

I’m quite happy with Vista, now that all my printer drivers are installed correctly. Vista x64 is still incompatible with some things (older software, etc), but I have enjoyed some of the outstanding functionality. For one, I just cannot live without the Start Menu Search functionality. I use that every day, all day long! And I love the snipping tool (I use an Apple keyboard, so I have no “Ctrl+Prnt Scr” buttons. But Vista is tough on graphics. And I’m getting fussier with graphics, because I am moving into heavy-duty photo and video editing. And I’m not finding much with Vista x64 that works well. So maybe Win7 has the answer. But not for a while! I have enough computers and I’m very happy with them.

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Planned Obsolescence

July 30, 2009 — Mrs. Mecomber

Will someone please tell me WHY there is this great big push to shelve technology– especially operating systems? And especially Microsoft operating systems?

OK, let me back off a little. There’s talk that MS will let Vista just fade away. It’s outdated, too buggy, and too bulky.

The Microsoft executive in charge of Windows urged some companies this week to dump Vista deployment plans and shift to Windows 7, the operating system the company has promised to ship in the fourth quarter.

“If you’re just starting your testing of Vista, with the [Windows 7] Release Candidate and the quality of that offering, I would switch over and do your testing on the [Windows 7] Release Candidate, and use that going forward,” Bill Veghte, Microsoft’s senior vice president for Windows business, said in a keynote speech earlier this week.

EXCUSE ME?! HELLO?! Just a year or two ago, Vista was hailed as THE FUTURE in operating systems! Now all of a sudden it’s junk? I think there’s more to all this than just the “this stinks” mantra that we hear every time MS releases a new operating system. It was only just a FEW short years ago when MS came out with XP. Do you remember allll the bellyaching that arose when XP came out?! I do! Everyone and their mother hated XP, they wanted Windows 98 back! But lo and behold, now XP is near perfection, especially compared with [evil organ music] VISTA. Vista must go, Vista must die! And what is there to take it’s place? Why, ANOTHER brand new, very expensive operating system!!

Something’s fishy.

So I predict that in 3-4 years from the release of Windows 7 (the sparkly new operating system coming out in October 2009), everyone will softly reminisce about the “good ol’ days” back when there was Vista.

Gimme a break. :cwazy:

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