You have no idea how fast the windows .net OS is. ANANDTECH IS FAST!

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: TuxDave
I dunno, I can SORTA see how an OS can make browsing seem faster. What if it has some 'smart' caching program that it automatically downloads the websites they you frequently visit while it's sitting around. So once you get there, it loads up almost instantly. -Dave-

This would only work well for simple static content, not for something dynamic like a forum. Say it caches this thread at noon, then it's missing all of the replies since then.

Even worse, for forums it would mean pre-caching every thread, since IE (or the OS) has no idea which threads you're going to want to read.

Pre-caching also fails for anything time-sensitive like stock quotes, and for sites that uses cookies to control the user's "session", since session cookies typically timeout after a short idle period.

 

[Nemesis77]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt

Originally posted by: Nemesis77
The OS has nothing to do with the speed of websites. What matters is:

1. Speed of the internet-connection.
2. Speed of the servers.
3. Browsers HTML-rendering-speed.

An example of a fast browser (#3) would be Konqueror, Mozilla and Opera.

Too bad konqueror is a POS when it comes to rendering things correctly

It is? I use it as my primary browser, and it renders about 95% of the websites I visit 100% correct. Mind you, I'm still using 2.2.2, the latest version (3.0.4) is alot better in every way.

 

[BadNewsBears]

Yah well they said i have 10 licences to do whatever with