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Story: Study: Windows 7 can boot more slowly than Vista

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Windows 7 can boot more slowly than Vista

I'm very surprised based on my own experience. My Netbook boots to a usable state in about 1 minute 20 seconds. However, the security software bangs away for a considerable time after that - something not experienced with Linux.

My subjective experience is that Windows 7 boots more quickly than Vista and generally performs much better than Vista.

I have friends with Vista laptops that are still slow and flaky running with all the latest service packs, and compare very unfavourably to my Netbook running Win7. In part, I have concluded that their laptop designs were not entirely *Vista Compatible*.

Myself, I was one of the many who removed Vista and installed XP on a brand new laptop which *should* have been more than adequately specified but clearly was not, i.e. it was not "Vista Capable" let alone designed for Vista - which opens another can of worms from which Microsoft seems have extricated itself despite demonstrable bad faith.

I triple boot my Netbook with XP, Win7 and Ubuntu and it is clear that Ubuntu is the OS which performs the best in almost all respects. In particular, maintenance of Ubuntu is the least demanding and easiest easiest to carry out.

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