Microsoft promises to optimize the amount of disk space that Windows 7 will consume in comparison to Windows Vista. Essentially, the Redmond company is laboring to decrease the installation footprint of the operating system with the next iteration of the Windows client. While the software giant failed to indicate just how much occupied disk space it was going to shave off in Windows 7, it did inform that it was looking to have Windows Vista beat in this aspect.

At this point in time, a clean installation of Windows 7 pre-Beta Build 6801 Milestone 3 takes over 6 GB of disk space. Vista manages to take hostage a similar portion of the hard disk, and in this context Microsoft has quite a lot of work to do to reduce the space occupied by Windows 7.

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Totally agree !

me thinks, MS should remove such editions like HomeBasic and Business. There should be

• Windows 7 Ultimate
• Windows 7 Enterprise - For business
• Windows 7 Home Premium - For Home

that will be a good thing for the users as vista occupies a lot of space ....thanks buddy