It boots and runs very fast for me. I am just suspicious of claims that it is a slam dunk re compatibility.


>my understanding is that they actually rewrote the kernel ( for the first time since WinNT I think ) and have decoupled the GUI stuff from the kernel and thereby allows for configurations that will let it run faster on less hardware.
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>>>>>>I don't understand why everyone keeps saying if it works under Vista it will work under Windows 7. I know Win7 is philosophically a cleaned up version of Vista, but it's a different code base, isn't it?
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>>>>>Do you rewrite your applications at version jumps? I remember I read at some articles "there are codes in XP written at win 3.1 times".
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>>>>I do retest them, yes. Maybe I'm a trusting soul, but not trusting enough to assume a new version of Windows will have no impact on my application. All the previous ones have, haven't they?
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>>>My objection was just for "...it's a different code base..." sentence. ;)
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>>Is it a different code base? I honestly don't know. It has to be different somehow, obviously.