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Loading ...The results are in — XP trumps Vista in benchmark tests
How embarassing — Microsoft commissions tests that compare Vista and XP, with the goal no doubt being to show how much better the new version is. Except that’s not what the test results prove.
Principled Technologies Inc., which performed the tests on the vendor’s behalf, showed Vista SP1 actually lagged XP on about 46 per cent of the business-oriented operations it measured. (The gap was 61 per cent on the consumer-oriented tests, but that’s not primarily what we’re concerned with here.)
Important to note is that XP shone in tests on PCs that had just come out of sleep mode. In cold boot tests, Vista picked up the pace. Whether that’s enough to trigger massive Vista adoptions is another story.
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March 4th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
I got a new Compaq last May with Vista on it. By August I was begging them to roll back to XP…I couldn’t take it anymore.
I’m now specing and pricing a new workstation - no economy box this puppy will break $2Gs easily. And my OS? XP Pro Sp2
I wish I could run Linux but with the apps I need to run I’m going to go with Windows.
I wish they’d drop the price on XP Pro like they did Vista!!!
As for age, you know they say it’s six years old but really, it’s only been a whole OS for a couple of years since SP2 and the other patches were finished.
We all recall the joke about what would happen if GM built cars like MSFT cranks out software…..
You can’t claim XP was a complete product at launch…it was in Beta for at least a couple of years
March 8th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Also from the “Duh, obviously…” department:
“[...]confirmed by our work in the InfoWorld Test Center. Our tests of the multitasking capabilities of Windows XP and Windows 2000 demonstrated that under the same heavy load on identical hardware, Windows 2000 significantly outperformed Windows XP.”
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/10/29/011029tcwinxp.html
April 14th, 2008 at 11:49 am
A lawyer friend confided that as soon as he got his new PC last summer, he promptly “upgraded” from Vista Business Premium to XP SP2. So did I for the reason that it works seamlssly with one of my peer to peer XP networks.
I always knew that Windows 2000 was faster than XP. 2000 was closer to the best of DOS, of course.