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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I hate Vista. What a pain.
Vista is the bastard child of Millenium Edition.
Service Pack 1 is lipstick on a pig.
I opted out of Vista with my new Dell laptop, but I retain the certificate if I ever wanted to make the gamble.
I’ve never had any problems with XP Professional.
I was at my Dad’s over Thanksgiving. He’s really sorry he got a Vista machine. I have no intention of “upgrading” my two XP machines any time soon. They’re running fine.
Yeah and what burns me the most is that they try to force Vista on everyone. I cant even use directx 10. wtf?
Love me some XP though! mmmm, mmmmm...
I love Vista, sort of. It’s a nice user interface, and it has a really cool feature that lets you start typing stuff and it finds it in the start menu, which is enormously helpful. HOWEVER, the fact that several of my apps totally stopped working just because I moved to Vista really really pisses me off.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Windows is the Homer Simpson of the computing world. They just can’t ever get it right.
My company with over 10,000 employees is counted in the NEVER group.
I agree!! I bought a Toshiba laptop with 1 gig of RAM, and it was like 98 with 4 megs - SLOW and UNSTABLE! Upgraded to 2 gigs, it is much better, but XP is still superior. Wish I could downgrade!
My XP love me long time.
So the Microsoft geniuses aren’t as smart as they are said to be.
Similar situation here. I bought my wife a new laptop for her home-based business. Thought I was doing a great thing only to find out that there are NO drivers for my HP AIO printer. And none planned. HP’s answer? Let me show you to a new printer, sir. UHG!
Isn’t it part of the EULA that you will not publish any results of benchmarking tests?
I heard that somewhere.
Anybody who owns it knows it..............
Funny that, because they are beginning to hit my bench with viruses on board... I guess it could just be backward compatibility... no, wait... can't be that... it's Vista :P
That's because nobody can use it................
I just wish it would quit asking every day whether I want to cancel or allow the weather channel desktop.
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