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Our Blogs Fuzzy Logic - Your personal technology evangelist Speed: the wow starts now with Windows XP SP3 | Speed: the wow starts now with Windows XP SP3 |
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| Written by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 26 November 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 2 According to independent performance tests from Devil Mountain Software (DMS) and the Exo Performance Network on the exo.blog, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) is ~10% faster than Windows XP SP2 on a machine with an otherwise identical configuration – a Dell XPS M1710 test bed with 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of RAM and discrete nVidia GeForce Go 7900GS video. On test was Windows XP SP3, version 3244, and it was tested with OfficeBench, which DMS said in their Vista testing is called the “DMS Clarity Studio OfficeBench test script” which “drives Microsoft Office 2007 through a scripted set of productivity tasks, including creating a compound document and supporting workbooks and presentations materials”. This has caused surprise, as XP’s SP3 was reportedly on planned as a “bug fix and patch consolidation” release. As no speed improvements were previously announced or even expected for SP3, the reported speed boost has naturally come as a welcome surprise to XP users who still haven’t upgraded to Vista or as yet have no plans to. Of course, it also entrenches in the minds of some that XP, with SP3, is Microsoft’s best and most stable Windows OS available, and could further postpone the migration to Vista for some users. The exo.blog says that “In fact, XP SP3 is shaping-up to be a ‘must have’ update for the majority of users who are still running Redmond's not-so-latest and greatest desktop OS”. The exo.blog is also quick to point out that “none of this bodes well for Vista, which is now more than 2x slower than the most current builds of its older sibling”, although Microsoft has responded by saying that the version of Vista SP1 is a release candidate that has not been tuned for performance and is not the final version of the software. So, are the test results for Vista SP1 accurate? Hasn't Vista been getting better all year? Please read onto page 2 for the conclusion... |
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