Posted on 11/27/2007 1:54:17 PM PST by Zakeet
Windows XP trounced Windows Vista in all tests, regardless of the versions used or the amount of memory running on the computer, says Devil Mountain Software.
In the latest Mac versus PC ad, that put-upon Windows guy quietly concedes he's "downgrading" from Vista to XP. He may have good reason: new tests show that the older XP runs common productivity tasks significantly faster than Microsoft's newest operating system.
Researchers at Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based developer of performance management tools, have posted data from their most recent Windows performance tests -- and Vista, even after it's been upgraded to the new Service Pack 1 beta package, is shown to be a laggard.
"The hoped for performance fixes [from Vista SP1] that Microsoft has been hinting at never materialized," said Devil Mountain researchers, in a blog post summarizing their results.
The researchers compared patched and unpatched versions of Vista and XP running Microsoft Office on a dual-core Dell notebook. The results revealed the time taken to complete Office productivity tasks such as the creation of a compound document and presentation materials.
Devil Mountain researchers ran a mix of tests comparing existing versions of the operating systems -- the original Vista and XP SP2 -- and versions that had been patched with the latest updates -- Vista SP1 beta and XP SP3 beta. Tests were also run on machines with 1 Gbyte and 2 Gbytes of memory.
Windows XP trounced Windows Vista in all tests -- regardless of the versions used or the amount of memory running on the computer. In fact, XP proved to be roughly twice as fast as Vista in most of the tests.
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Every time I boot into Vista, it makes me laugh out loud that anybody could have thought it to be a viable consumer OS.
It's big, it's slow, and it's like driving an aircraft carrier after a speedboat.
And, oh yes -Vista is running on a 3.0 GHz 8-core Xeon Mac Pro with 8 GB of RAM.
Resistance is futile.
You are not alone. I too, love the search feature on the start bar and in the explorer windows. Although I do believe the benchmark tests showed XP faster, I haven’t noticed a performance issue with my Vista notebook. I had one app that wouldn’t work, but I figured out how some hacks and was able to get it running again.
I can’t stand the UAC (User Account Control) though. Nothing like being asked for permission every time you try to accomplish something. I turn off UAC immmediately whenever I receive a Vista machine.
“My company with over 10,000 employees is counted in the NEVER group.”
Mine, in the 30,000 range, IS planning a Vista upgrade.
Luckily, they are so slow and out-of-date that an upgrade is unrealistic.
Say, does anyone on this computer thread (or another) want to answer some questions I have about graphics cards for laptops? I don’t feel like posting a whole new thread. Please advise if you are interested.
Why would sane consumers pay more for less?
Microsoft has a fix for that. They will stop supporting XP.
Neither do I...ever.
So for now, stick w xp. But isn't Microsoft going to discontinue servicing xp at some point?
I have XP home. Runs alright, but I just installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a small partition over the weekend to try out. It blazes past XP. I’m keeping it, and will eventually only use XP for such apps I can’t get on Ubuntu like Quicken.
Security by obscurity....
That poster on that site said that he supposed it was to have DRM issues imbedded in the code so deep that they will always have the market cornered to a degree, and I beleive it. I think Office 2007 has changes that are for the sake of furthering that market cornering issue as well and they just want to make cross-platform work as impossible as they can to milk money from the business community.
I don't know anything about that industry -- I am only a consumer, but a disgrunted one.
Yikes.... I hate to think about how much $$$ the conversion to Vista cost. Nothing works the way it used to under WinXP.
If you don’t have to buy a new machine, stay away from this doggy named VISTA.
(unhappy user)
LOL! Me too! I give it a great big ~eh~ :D
Much ado about nothing as far as I can see... But I will tell you, I downgraded my laptop back to XP, just to see, and boy, does that thing smoke! An immense difference, and that is comparing the two with Aero turned off too!
Sadly, it was only temporary- I had to blow it back to Vista so I can learn to hack the bloody thing. Unfortunate, though it be, I would betcha MS is NOT gonna back off of Vista... They never do...
ping
I’ve always liked XP and have used it since it first came out. I have had almost no problems with it at all, which is just one of the many reasons why I will NOT upgrade to Vista until I absolutely have no choice.
I have the Vista DVD (provided by Dell when I bought my computer last year) but I’m still using XP. I may install Vista after SP1 comes out but I’m still not certain that I will. It depends on how SP1 is received, and reviewed.
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