Microsoft disclosed Windows 7 and IE 8 development goals

Beijing time on August 29th news, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft disclosed in the company's blog, the performance problem that plagued Windows Vista and IE 7 is the new version of the Windows operating system and An important goal of IE.

Windows Vista and IE 7 had serious performance problems in the early days, which affected the image of these two products and made users very dissatisfied. Some users use Firefox because of the frequent crashes and low performance of IE 7. The media reports about Vista's defects and poor compatibility are even more overwhelming.

Microsoft said in the ""Engineering Windows 7" and "IEblog" blogs that Microsoft is very concerned about product performance in the development of Windows 7 and IE 8. “Engineering Windows 7” said the blog, “We are focused on improving the performance of Windows 7 and IE 8. This is also the top priority of our development team. ”

Market analyst firm Directions on Microsoft analyst Mike · Mike Cherry said that Microsoft's product performance is not easy — — especially Windows 7 performance. He said, "I am skeptical about how much Microsoft can improve product performance. ” Chery recommends that while ensuring the security and reliability of the code, Microsoft should ensure that each line of code helps to improve the performance of the product.

According to Microsoft's blog, although there are many factors affecting performance, the Windows 7 team will focus on improving the performance of Windows 7 in six aspects, including memory usage, CPU (Central Processing Unit) utilization, and disk. Input/Output (I/O), power-on-off-standby-recovery, basic system, hard disk space usage.

CPU utilization issues are especially serious in Vista, and Windows 7 should focus on solving this problem. Chery said that his computer is equipped with a 64-bit processor, 2GB of RAM, running a 32-bit version of Vista, when the Outlook email client is opened, the CPU utilization actually reached 100% in a minute and a half. .

Microsoft said in "Engineering Windows 7" that a key design goal for Windows 7 is to reduce CPU utilization and power consumption.

According to “IEblog”, the focus of IE 8 improvements is to improve the loading speed of web pages and images, which requires increasing the speed of processing scripting languages ​​and rendering engines.