Compare Between Windows Vista And Windows 7

Windows 8 Memory Consumption: The easiest way to make a ballpark comparison of Windows 8 vs. Windows 7 memory use is to install both operating systems on a 1GB RAM machine (minimum OS RAM requirement) and compare them when they've been rebooted multiple times, and then idled for a while. The below graphics compare memory. To let customers easily compare between Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft has published a Windows Client Feature Comparison Chart, which compares features of interest to IT professionals across three versions of the Windows client operating system: Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows 7. The Windows Client Feature. This paper compares the differences between the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system and the Windows 7.0 operating system by using a technical and features-based discussion to form the foundation of the analysis.

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Windows 7 Vista

With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft is offering users a choice of six product versions, not counting the 'special' versions for the European Union and Korea (the so-called N and K editions).

Below I will give a breakdown on the most important differences between the versions.

First, let's list the versions and their estimated retail pricing as announced by Microsoft last September.

There will be N (EU) editions of Windows Vista Home Basic and Windows Vista Business available. I don't have any information on the availability of the K (Korean) editions, presumably they will follow the N editions.

In the table below I list the differences between the various Windows Vista Edittions. I've left the Stater, N and K edittions out of this overview.

Most users will have the ability to choose between Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate (since the Enterprise version will only be available for Volume License customers). If the above feature list didn't make it clear enough yet, I will spell it out: Home Basic is useless and you should never consider it!

So that leaves Home Premium, Business and Ultimate to choose from. The choice between Home Premium and Business corresponds roughly with the choice today between Windows XP Home and XP Professional.

The Ultimate edition combines the features found in the Home and Business editions of Vista and will have a number of additional features/applications which aren't known yet at this point. I suggest you get Ultimate only if you don't mind paying the extra $$ it costs, otherwise stick with either Home Premium or Business.

As always, I do not recommend upgrading from a previous Windows version. You should consider your new OS an excellent excuse to wipe your hard drive & start from fresh. This will get rid of a lot of junk you'll have picked up over time, and also has the least chance of problems.

This doesn't mean that you can't purchase an upgrade version: You will just need to insert the previous Windows media as proof of your eligibility.

Windows 95/98/Me and NT user do not qualify for upgrade pricing, so you'll have to pay full price for Windows Vista, and an in-place upgrade is not supported.

Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional x64 are eligible for upgrade pricing, but can't do an in-place upgrade, they have to perform a full install instead. All other Windows XP users can choose between an in-place upgrade and a clean install.

Windows XP Home Edition can be used to do an in-place upgrade to all versions available through retail, while Windows XP Professional can only be upgraded (in-place) to Vista Business or Vista Ultimate. Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) can be upgraded to Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate, while Windows XP Tablet PC Edition can only be upgrade to Vista Business or Vista Ultimate.

Please note I've talked about the possibilities for in-place upgrading, for example, you can still buy a Vista Business upgrade when you currently have Windows XP MCE. You'll then have to do a clean (full) install instead of the possible in-place upgrade.

Since all Vista product editions ship on the same install DVD, Microsoft will offer new upgrade options from some versions. Called Windows Anytime Upgrade, this is just a way in which Microsoft allows you to purchase a new product key which will unlock the additional features. According to preliminary information these upgrades should be slightly cheaper than buying the boxed copy of the upgrade version of your choice.

Windows Anytime Upgrade should be available after January 2007.

Last Updated: November 10, 2006

You may have come across the case where you look at a file property to get its size (or get the size of multiple files and folders), and noticed that Windows 7 / Vista / XP was showing two different sizes: 'Size', and 'Size on Disk'. So what is the difference?

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File Size vs. Size on Disk

Simple definition of file size: Your files are containers of information; the type of information stored inside a file determines the file's size: a plain text document in Notepad is typically small, but the exact same text inside Microsoft Word is much larger, because Word includes a lot of 'metadata', like text formatting, colors, bullets, etc. inside its file as well. A picture is even more tedious to describe for a computer, and it needs to write information about the position and color of every single dot, or 'pixel' that makes up the photo or image (in addition to GPS coordinates, the name and model of the camera that shot the image, etc.)

Simple definition of size on disk: unlike size, which is an absolute measure of the amount of information a file contains, the size on disk depends from one computer to another, and from one moment in time to another on the same computer. Why? Because Windows 7 / Vista / XP do not store files as a single piece of something: instead, they have to store a single file in multiple sectors on the same disk - and another piece (or more) of the disk (hard drive) has to be used to keep track of all the pieces that make out the entire file!

Note: this is the reason why a well and regularly defragmented hard drive is important, and makes your computer run faster. When all the free sectors on your disk are close together (new hard drive, or a defragmented one), all files are spread in sectors close to one another - so your PC has to do less searches to find all the pieces of a file.

Compare Between Windows Vista And Windows 7 Installer

Bottom line on difference between file size vs. size on disk: if you are concerned about the amount of space a file will take on your hard drive, you should look at the 'Size on Disk' indicator; if you want to figure out if a file is small enough to be emailed or uploaded, look at the 'Size'.

Windows Vista Vs Windows 7