A recent study showed that the bottleneck for the performance of most computers under Windows 7 is their memory.

Referring to the data obtained from the Devil Mountain Software Network Exo.performance.network (XPnet), Bart Craig (Craig Barth), Chief Technology Officer, said that the new results reveal disturbing trends. On average, 86% of machines running Windows 7 on the network XPnet regularly consume 90-95% of the available memory, leading to a slowdown of work, since the system was forced to move to a virtual disk storage for processing tasks. At the same time Windows XP users have similar problems occur in about half as likely, "says Bart. According to available data, the number of machines running XP, forced to move to a virtual memory due to lack of memory, is about 40% of all machines running XP. "The vast majority of machines with Windows 7 over the past few months, memory overload", ─ says Bart. ─ "From a performance standpoint, this has a direct impact on the car."

Memory troubles with computers running Windows 7 look even more gravely, if we remind that, according to the statistics on computers with Windows 7 at an typical installed 3.3Gb of RAM, while computers running Windows XP on the average employ of 1.7Gb Memory. On machines running Windows Vista on average include 2.7GB of memory. "The machines with Windows 7 is roughly twice as much memory to work, but the data explain how Windows 7 is better and more complex than XP", ─ said Bart.

Bart acknowledges that data XPnet not feasible to settle on, thus rising memory usage, as the operating system itself, or else because of the rising number of applications, but supposed that the Devil Mountain began operational to get a leading factor in increasing the use of memory.

Among other data, which Devil Mountain collects as part of a new metric called the "Windows Performance Composite Index" (WCPI), a peak load of CPU and I / O performance. Both of these values are also higher for systems with Windows 7, than for machines running XP. While under Windows 7 85% of the systems running at peak levels of I / O under Windows XP is observed only in 36% of computers. Data on the CPU does not differ so much: 44% of systems with Windows 7 works with slower performance computing tasks, compared with 36% of systems with XP. "It is alarming", ─ said Bart on the consumption of computer resources under Windows 7. ─ "Windows 7 is a lean version of Vista, as many believe."

Experienced computer users are more familiar with the opposite situation, when the components are ahead of the requirements of the operating system. However, the current generation of components just satisfies the appetites of the new OS. "Old trends simply no longer exists. Now, all that gives Intel, takes Microsoft", ─ says Bart.