So in reality nothing much has changed? I’m a bit disappointed. The increase bootup speed shows the MS put effort into analysing services and startup times of software on the critical path. Its a nice bootup time, though. Interesting that these kind of speedups have been happening in an evolutionary way in most Linux distributions so they don’t appear as dramatic. My guess is that this will help 7 as it moves to play in the netbook space. I’ve seen netbooks push bootup and power consumption figures.

But the rest is disappointing. It seems as if nothing has changed in terms of the underlying core technologies. File systems aren’t faster, graphics isn’t faster or better (which would explain the gaming benchmark).

I’m pretty sure you could track the lower memory to improvements made to essential services that are running on all installations. A 10% drop seems quite dramatic and I’d have loved to now more about why it dropped.

Windows 7, you’ll love it because XP is out and you hate Vista Is anyone in ZA being a Munchkin and throwing a Tupperdows launch party for 7?