Comments on: I’m looking for comments on Windows 7 beta vs XP or Vista http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1142-im-looking-for-comments-on-windows-7-beta-vs-xp-or-vista.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: George http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1142-im-looking-for-comments-on-windows-7-beta-vs-xp-or-vista.html/comment-page-1#comment-118918 George Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:34:32 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1142-im-looking-for-comments-on-windows-7-beta-vs-xp-or-vista.html#comment-118918 I'm a software engineer and intial findings show that some hardware drivers that work on Vista (32-bit)(and XP) do not work on W7 (32-bit), contrary to what I'd heard. They seem to fail in the same way as they do with Vista 64 (which is obvious as they're 32 bit drivers), but this is the 32 bit version of W7. Performance also seems similar to Vista 64 if not slightly snappier. I’m a software engineer and intial findings show that some hardware drivers that work on Vista (32-bit)(and XP) do not work on W7 (32-bit), contrary to what I’d heard.

They seem to fail in the same way as they do with Vista 64 (which is obvious as they’re 32 bit drivers), but this is the 32 bit version of W7.

Performance also seems similar to Vista 64 if not slightly snappier.

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