PC World: "Windows Vista never was particularly speedy in most people's eyes. Whether it deserved the reputation or not, the word on the street was that Vista was both slow and bloated.
Given that, it's no wonder that improving performance was one of Microsoft's design goals with Windows 7. Many reviewers have said that the new operating system feels faster than Vista. In our extensive PC World Test Center evaluations comparing the two, we found an increase in speed, though the overall improvement wasn't dramatic."
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Yeah, this is pretty accurate, it won't capture the core XP users but it should initiate a switch for Vista users, which should be mandatory lol.
*Here come the disagrees from fanboys dun dun dunn!*
"feels faster than Vista" not really saying much there.
I disagree. I think that Windows 7 is microsoft's relaunch of Vista, which was a necessity due to the onslaught of crap that it experienced during launch. They were losing money; no one wanted to switch from XP to Vista. So what do they do? They strip it down, take out some stupid resource intensive services that shouldn't have been there in the first place, make some minor optimizations, skin it, and bam! New OS = New cash cow.
I just found out today that dreamscene wont be in windows 7 .
That really sucks .
I must be late ...i didn't even know this .
I agree with darkecho. I have vista 64 and I don't see any urgent reason to switch to W7. For games, DX11 will come to Vista too, see the reviews from Guru3d, there is no difference for gaming performance between W7 and Vista. VIsta 64 is fine for me.