Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Nov 2007 21:17 UTC, submitted by Research Staff
"After a disappointing showing by Windows Vista SP1, we were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v.3244) delivers a measurable performance boost to this aging desktop OS. Testing with OfficeBench showed a ~10% performance boost vs. the same configuration running under Windows XP with Service Pack 2."
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2005-07-27
"So that's my answer - Vista has lots of new code that hasn't had years and years to be optimized yet."
It's just been *5 years* in the making, that's all... *HARDLY* enough time to actually OPTIMIZE anything, before shipping it to Microsoft's adoring public!
Seriously, you'd think with ALL the money Bill Gates/Microsoft has, they could put out a decent sequel to XP, not only in LESS time than 5 yrs., but also something that runs BETTER than XP, not worse!
Apparently the only thing Microsoft is good at is copying looks, not performance. :-)
Apple knows what they're doing and where they're going. Is it any wonder why Microsoft's motto was:
"Where do you want to go today?"
Because they never knew where THEY were going, so they were hoping someone else did and they'd simply hitch a free ride!
Obviously, they can't even do THAT right! :-)