How windows OS should be

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/windows-7-runs-on-a-pentium-ii-with-96mb-ram-20090622/

The article above shows that windows 7 install and runs on pentium 2 generation system. Unlike vista your system will barely run on the minimum system requirements hardware. I know this is way too low and no one will be doing this. But you get the point here
This is good news for all of use and also laptops, no need of core i7 to really run it great.
Vista system requirements and resources are higher then XP which you need faster system, but windows 7 is the other way around, you will think that new OS will need faster and better computers but is not the case.

I really love windows 7 RC 64 bit and it works with out any issue at all, I have it dual boot with vista, seems to have greater hardware support then vista imo.
I hope this will bring MS up in windows sales again since vista was bad for their pocket and many businesses where staying with xp.

They should have just release windows 7 after xp instead of vista. My system zips through windows 7.

Windows 7 on a high end PC is no difference than Vista on a high end. 7's biggest achievement is the ability to scale back in order to run on older hardware. Vista is missing this ability. I think that Microsoft should build all future versions of Windows this way, designed from the ground up to be scaled down to fit the machine rather than simply being expected to run slower on older hardware.

Yea that's true, also notice that superfetch is much more optimize some how and memory management is better.

MS should have made vista the same which support for older hardware. They learn the hard way by the low sales of vista and many enterprise companies sticking to XP.
Who wants to have to replace computer and hardware to a more newer on just to support a new OS and every time a new OS comes out? Is cheaper to upgrade a new windows then also upgrading hardware and windows at the same time. That's not really right, a goal of an OS is to communicate with your hardware and install other 3rd part programs that run on and OS.

For home, gamer consumer stand point is not a big deal since he/she just has one rig and upgrade their boards, cpus and gpu's yearly any way, but for big companies is different.

∞Velocitymaster∞;1034266365 said:

They should have just release windows 7 after xp instead of vista. My system zips through windows 7.

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if they skipped vista, lots of people would have problems with 7 (or whatever they would have called it) and people would hate it just as much. The only reason there aren't many problems with 7 is because it's so similar to vista, which is already a great OS.

I decided to completely wipe my work laptop of Vista and put Win7 x64 on it... had it for almost a week now and pretty happy with it. Runs pretty fast, although Vista was doing alright for being around and abused by me for almost 2 years, but it was definitely in need of a format anyways.

I'm looking forward to the release of Win7, it's definitely a worthy OS, although I'm not looking forward to potentially having to install it on 10+ computers at work.

I've got Windows 7 on about 50% of my machines now. I'll probably wait until Windows 7 is released before upgrading the rest, as I don't have the time to keep updating them all.

ChingChang said:

is because it's so similar to vista, which is already a great OS.

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looks are similar but the coding is a lot different and so as the kernel. You don't know how much work and change. They didn't take vista and edit it, they built it from the ground up. They do use Aero interface like in vista but an improve. I read discussions on MS technet and that's what those software developers said. Obviously you don't have a clue what went on building windows 7.

bigdogchris said:

Windows 7 on a high end PC is no difference than Vista on a high end. 7's biggest achievement is the ability to scale back in order to run on older hardware. Vista is missing this ability. I think that Microsoft should build all future versions of Windows this way, designed from the ground up to be scaled down to fit the machine rather than simply being expected to run slower on older hardware.

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eh, not quite.

∞Velocitymaster∞;1034275746 said:

looks are similar but the coding is a lot different and so as the kernel. You don't know how much work and change. They didn't take vista and edit it, they built it from the ground up. They do use Aero interface like in vista but an improve. I read discussions on MS technet and that's what those software developers said. Obviously you don't have a clue what went on building windows 7.

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LOL so you're saying if vista wasn't around it would be just as good as it is now? If there weren't vista drivers then how do you think almost everything would work? Many vista drivers will work on windows 7 because it is a similar OS to vista. When vista was released, there were so many hardware problems because of the lack of drivers available (and people just blamed microsoft). For 7, even if your hardware doesn't have 7 drivers, there's at least a chance it will work with vista drivers.
Obviously you don't have a clue what went on building windows 7.

ChingChang said:

LOL so you're saying if vista wasn't around it would be just as good as it is now? If there weren't vista drivers then how do you think almost everything would work? Many vista drivers will work on windows 7 because it is a similar OS to vista. When vista was released, there were so many hardware problems because of the lack of drivers available (and people just blamed microsoft). For 7, even if your hardware doesn't have 7 drivers, there's at least a chance it will work with vista drivers.
Obviously you don't have a clue what went on building windows 7.

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If you know then tell me what went on building windows 7?
I do know that many vista drivers work with win 7 because that aspect is similar to vista. Example here are nvidia display drivers. But why did MS went on to windows 7 when now vista really works great? They could have release a service pack to fix it but they can't. They make windows 7 so it can run smooth on any type of computer not just high end. Like this they can sell more and to big companies with out having to upgrade their hardware. So they have to built a new kernel and other aspects that I don't know of but.
The other reason of the release is just marketing and to make money, also competition with apple's OS as well. They only time we saw 5 year with out a new OS was in Windows XP.

∞Velocitymaster∞;1034276177 said:

If you know then tell me what went on building windows 7?
I do know that many vista drivers work with win 7 because that aspect is similar to vista. Example here are nvidia display drivers. But why did MS went on to windows 7 when now vista really works great? They could have release a service pack to fix it but they can't. They make windows 7 so it can run smooth on any type of computer not just high end. Like this they can sell more and to big companies with out having to upgrade their hardware. So they have to built a new kernel and other aspects that I don't know of but.
The other reason of the release is just marketing and to make money, also competition with apple's OS as well. They only time we saw 5 year with out a new OS was in Windows XP.

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yeah that's what I've been saying. If not for this, driver support wouldn't be nearly as good and people would complain that hardware doesn't work and the OS is unstable - just like what happened with vista.

MrWizard6600 said:

eh, not quite.

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Good argument. Valid points and it's caused me to throw out my research and believe your opinion.