Amusing: Windows XP Outshines Vista in Benchmarking Test
This made me chuckle, (I may have even chortled)
Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking testNew tests have revealed that Windows XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.
Vista’s first service pack, to be released early next year, is intended to boost the operating system’s performance. However, when Vista with the Service Pack 1 (SP1) beta was put through benchmark testing by researchers at Florida-based software development company Devil Mountain Software, the improvement was not overwhelming, leaving the latest Windows iteration outshined by its predecessor.
This is the best part of the article:
Microsoft admits that the launch has not gone as well as the company would have liked. “Frankly, the world wasn’t 100 percent ready for Windows Vista,” corporate vice president Mike Sievert said in a recent interview at Microsoft’s partner conference in Denver.
He reminds me of this Apple ad: Podium
Amusing!
Update: Fun “review” describing … The Advantages of Upgrading From Vista To XP
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I work with some really high end design software and a lot of that is still really struggling with Vista, but Microsoft will force adoption of course by removing oem XP from system builders in the near future