Entries tagged with performance - TechNet Edge

Windows 7 Performance - yeah, it's faster.

Adam Bomb — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Bill Karagounis is always going, going, going. It only makes sense, then, that he's the Principal Group Program Manager looking after performance in Windows, both client and server.
I sat down with Bill on what turned out to be the day we finalized the Windows 7 Release Candidate to talk about the performance improvements. He had a lot to talk about. He talked about some of the performance mantras in the Windows 7 design, things like "Ready and Responsive" and "User in Control."
Bill talked about the memory footprint in Win7 - this is the first time we've shipped an OS with a smaller footprint than its predecessor. He spent months fighting with groups about 2k of memory.
He talked about the Beta, and the wealth of telemetry data we were able to capture, to identify places we needed to improve performance even more.
Fascinating stuff, all the way around.

Client Performance Tuning

Ralf M. Schnell — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:54:00 GMT

Eines der häufigtsten Urteile über Windows Vista ist: Zu langsam!!! Um diesem Problem sachlich und gründlich auf die Spur zu kommen, habe ich mich mit einem Experten zusammengesetzt, meinem Kollegen Bernd Stetter, der als Premier Support-Techniker viele unserer Kunden vor Ort betreut und insbesondere einer unserer angesehensten Experten weltweit für die Optimierung von Windows Client-Installationen ist. Bernd hatte mich bereits bei der Vorbereitung einer Technet-Seminarreihe zu diesem Thema unterstützt. In diesem Interview geht er anhand von xPerf-Traces sehr detailliert auf die Unterschiede zwischen Windows XP, Windows Vista und Windows 7 ein und erklärt die Änderungen auf Kernel-Ebene, durch die die von Windows Vista bekannten Probleme in Windows 7 nachhaltig gelöst werden. Außerdem zeigt er Anzeichen für typische Fehlkonfigurationen auf, die Windows unnötig verlangsamen und die oft sehr einfach zu beheben sind.

Screencast: Ways to Improve Your Windows Vista Computer Performance

johnbake — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:07:00 GMT

I decided for my first screencast that I would leverage the Windows Vista Help and How-to website. After reviewing the content available there, I thought it would be useful to do a quick run through of Performance Information and Tools in the control panel.

Turns out it wasn't as quick as I thought it would be, but I'll work on making sure future screencasts are much shorter.

Go Go Go! Vista Performance with Brad Marrs

Adam Bomb — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Brad Marrs made a brief appearance at TechEd - flying in just long enough to provide me with this interview and present his session on Vista performance.
In the interview, he talks about some of the feedback his team received when Vista was released and how they improved the performance in Vista SP1.
He talks to us about how the team improved file copy speeds and network i/O. He also talks about some of the tools that you can use to measure performance beyond perfmon.

Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy

Michael Kleef [MSFT] — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:22:00 GMT

Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista underperforms in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception. In this demo I show how Vista outperforms Windows XP and I show the under the covers process traces of just how it achieves it.
Demo environment consists of two images. One Vista SP1 and the other Windows XP SP2 both on the same HDD IO and communicating across my home wireless network to a Windows Server 2008 box on my main LAN. Once the two images get going latency gets introduced and things start to slow down....except Vista doesnt slow down. Watch and see!

Windows Server 2008 Performance and Scalability with Bill Karagounis

Adam Bomb — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT

In some parallel universe, an alternate version of me went to work for Bill way back in 2000, when we both worked in Microsoft Consulting. I don't know if that bizarro Adam survived, but if he did, I suspect he's very, very tired.
We shot this video first thing in the morning, but you can see that Bill still has a lot of energy and passion around his job, which is basically making Windows Server go better. He told me about some of the Server 2003-2008 improvements that they've made, some things that really made me sit up and take notice. How about 40% more TS users on the same hardware? How about a 10% reduction in power consumption, under identical workloads? Faster network and disk transfers? All stuff you get just by upgrading the OS. Cool Stuff.
(Bill's team has a blog at http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/)
<video was updated on 2/25/2008>