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RaZoR1394:

--- Quote from: "Slashdot/New York times" ---          hype7 writes "The New York Times is running an article on why they think Windows is so slow. They boil it down to one key factor - legacy support - and they hold up Apple as an example of a company willing to make hard decisions around legacy support in order to provide a better product. From the article: 'Windows is now so big and onerous because of the size of its code base, the size of its ecosystem and its insistence on compatibility with the legacy hardware and software, that it just slows everything down ... That's why a company like Apple has such an easier time of innovation.'"

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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/28/0912246
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/technology/27soft.html?ex=1301115600&en=d0c02cd75d5822fb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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Aloone_Jonez:
No, the real truth is anti-virus software running in the background, if you disable it then the performance is acceptable.

H_TeXMeX_H:
No ... the untruth is that Window$ is BULLSHIT !!! The only way to fix it is to destroy it :D

Lead Head:
I norice a 0.3% performence difference between anti virus running and not running, then again I don't use Norton.

Aloone_Jonez:
Probably not if you're running some fuck off dual core 3.2GHz 1GB of RAM box but it does make a difference on my pusy 1.8GHz 256MB machine.

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