Windows 7 beta: 1. Windows Vista Service Pack 2 beta: 0.

I used VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro to install Windows7 beta, and it worked great.

Tried the same with Vista Service Pack 2 beta: FAIL.



Related: TechArp says it looks like MS is delaying the release date for SP2 by a month and is planning to add an extra build and iteration to handle a last round of critical bug fixes. This is a good conservative move but I doubt they'd be doing it if SP2 was looking as good as Win7 looks right now.

The actual release candidate build has now been delayed till March. The RTM build of Service Pack 2, which was originally scheduled for April, has been delayed until sometime in Q2, 2009. That means a launch in either May or June, barring any further delays.

Asked and Answered

Yeah, I think Vista is the new WinME.

Of course, I've only been running Vista for the past two years and two months (since Beta 1 in August '05) so what do I know.

Windows Vista: the new WinME?

I'm just asking.

New realms of suckage

Microsoft's new whitepaper on benchmarking Vista performance caused me to say that it could be useful for determining whether add-ons (like antivirus software) were responsible for dragging Vista performance down into new realms of suckage.

One of my co-workers liked the phrase. I thought it was a Buffy-ism, but a google search for it revealed zero hits.

This post should change that. :-)

(Update 8/12/2007 - Yes!!! I now ownz3rs "new realms of suckage"! w00t!)