Running Vista? It seems you shouldn’t be. The windows 7 beta seems to be beating out Vista in all performance tests. Windows 7 also uses far less memory and performance is much better. For those of you who hate Vista, maybe you should give Windows 7 beta a try.

However, it has been reported that Windows 7 looks and feels strikingly like Mac OSX. Very similar to Vista, but not completely. Still, if you’re running Vista right now, you may want to give Windows 7 a go, because I’m sure you’re annoyed with it’s performance and memory usage. If not, well you should be

For me, I’m still sticking with XP and Ubuntu primarily, but I may give Windows 7 a go at some point in the near future. If I do, expect a full write up on my experience. I absolutely hated windows Vista, I thought it was a piece of garbage that should have never been released. I actually may feel exactly the same way about Windows 7 because I’m more of a minimalist when it comes to GUI garbage.

I had Compiz running on Ubuntu and it gave me a bunch of problems and performance errors. Eventually I asked myself is this worth it? I came to the conclusion it wasn’t, and turned it off. If I could turn Windows 7 into XP with the default theme and windows 98 look I would be happy, because to be honest the only thing I like  about Vista/7 is the fact it has DX10.

Why do these companies keep focusing on GUI so much. I could care less about GUI I care more about functionality. Does it run better than XP, is it more secure, reliable? The answer to those questions for Vista is no. Trojans for XP still worked on Vista? Are you kidding me? I’m going to guess the same is true for Windows 7. No real improvements, just looks pretty and is less of a resource pig.

Maybe more people will switch this time around. I might, who knows. Maybe I’ll wait until all new games no longer work on Windows XP Again, those of you running Vista, it might be a good idea to check out Windows 7 if you want to free up some resources.