

"It blows me away," he said of the problem.


However, when he starts his Outlook e-mail client, it uses 100% of his CPU resources for more than a minute and a half. Cherry said he runs a 32-bit version of Vista on a PC with a 64-bit processor and 2GB of RAM. While performance is made up of "many elements," the blog post said the Windows 7 team is focusing on six areas of improvement in Windows 7: memory usage, CPU utilization, disk I/O, the boot-shutdown-standby-resume feature, the base system and disk footprint.ĬPU utilization, in particular, is a problem in Vista, and could use improvement in Windows 7. Similarly, Microsoft should make performance such a priority that "anyone checking any code into Windows 7 not only has to make sure it's the most secure code and the most reliable code, but they'd better be addressing the performance of the code as well," Cherry said.
