The recent release of Windows 7 Beta has created a lot of buzz with Windows 7 boasting of much improved performance and usability.

Guys over at Tuxradar have conducted real time benchmarking tests for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Ubuntu to find out which one is better.

The same hardware was used for three Operating Systems and they compared installation time, boot time, File Copy operations and time taken to execute Richards benchmark.

Though Windows Vista and Windows 7 lagged behind Ubuntu in installation time and hard disk space consumed, Windows 7 was way ahead of both Ubuntu and Windows Vista in boot up time.

Windows 7 had trouble copying and deleting small sized files though worked with large files pretty quickly and the time it took to copy large files from one hard disk to another was the best among three.

On the Richards Benchmarking tests, all the three performed almost same without any major difference though Windows 7 64-bit edition was quickest of all.

You can read the whole report of comparisons performed by TuxRadar here.

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