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Windows 7 was basically Vista with a few service packs, and Vista wasn't really that bad. Once the rough edges were off and it was renamed "Windows 7" it was li
by SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
Windows 7 was basically Vista with a few service packs, and Vista wasn't really that bad. Once the rough edges were off and it was renamed "Windows 7" it was liked well enough.
- quietbritishjim 5y agoVista->7 was certainly a smaller change than XP->Vista but more than service pack level. For instance, one big one is that DWM in Vista keeps a copy of each window (at least old GDI windows, maybe not DirectX ones) in both CPU and GPU memory, which both consumes unnecessary space and generally slows rendering down. In Windows 7, they're only on the GPU. It's a classic example of something changing significantly under the hood but not being very visually obvious.