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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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RE[7]: XP support must be extended

by meianoite on Mon 26th Nov 2007 19:34 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: XP support must be extended"

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Personally, I'd love to see Microsoft drop Windows NT, the whole damn line - adopt OpenSolaris as the core, and build upon it.

-1 (discussion-wise, evidently not mod points)

(Open)Solaris is optimized for throughput, not latency. It's a great kernel, but still needs to go a long way to really fulfil the requirements of a desktop OS.

They have some bloody smart people there at Microsoft, its too bad that internal politics rather than technology, make the decisions. If it were left to technology, we wouldn't have the half baked compromise that is UAC, for example.

+1.

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