Windows 7 is finally with us, two and a half years after we were given Vista, Microsoft have unleashed their latest Windows Operating System. The kind people over at PC Mag have put together a series of tests in order to see where Windows 7 Compares to it's older brothers. The tests found that while 7 is a vast improvement over Vista it's only just managed to pass the benchmark set by many people's favourite, XP. Even still XP beats 7 in several tests.

It must be noted that these tests were carried out on clean installs of each operating system and may not entirely reflect the performance when a machine is slightly older with more applications installed.

As you can see above Windows 7 is clearly the better performer, but only just. PC Mag have stated however that these tests were run on a machine built back when XP was the main OS and these tests are purely for people thinking of upgrading their existing XP installs.

For the full list of tests and their results you can view the PC Mag article here.