Prior to the final release of Microsoft Windows 7, there some question as to what the new operating system would do for battery life on laptops. At that time, I felt it was too early to make any judgments , simply because final hardware drivers and power management utilities weren’t available. Now that Windows 7 is available, most vendors have provided software updates, so it’s a good time to check in on this. I spent yesterday running a Battery Eater test on my Toshiba NB205 netbook and then re-ran the test today. I have the device setup for dual booting between Windows XP and Windows 7, so it’s pretty easy to run the test. Battery Eater stresses out the device under test to provide the minimum runtime you can expect, not the maximum. I tried to setup the environments as equal as possible in what I consider a reasonable “real world” situation: screen brightness at 40%, Wi-Fi on and all power management features disabled. I’m a little surprised at the results.
On Windows XP and 2000 click start, right click on my computer and click properties, a window will appear, here you must click on the tab titled “system
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Microsoft's Rich Reynolds, general manager of Windows Commercial, told me last week that Windows 7's adoption was running at least twice as fast as XP's,
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Follow these tips to deal with an XP system that won't recognize flash drives, restore an XP backup in Windows 7, and solve IE script errors in Windows XP.
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Mind you, Windows 7 is a major improvement but I did find Vista to be much better than XP. by jture November 12, 2010 2:27 PM PST Um, so Microsoft hasn't
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But a just-released report from Forrester shows that Windows XP still rules the business world, where it beats Windows 7 by a margin of 7.5 to one.
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En teoría Windows7 consume 216MB () Windows 8 only takes about 210 MB of RAM 
En teoría Windows7 consume 216MB () RT @: Windows 8 only takes about 210 MB of RA… (cont) 
Bah, I quit. Windows XP sucks vs Mac OS X's bluetooth file transfer. To be fair, is it easier on Win 7?
I liked a @ video Boot Time- Windows 7 Vs Windows Vista vs Windows XP In The Same
@ Would be interested to see the user agents from Windows hits, so we can see the 7 vs XP migration speed.