Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test

[mikepossy]

The tests have revealed that XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.

Vista, both with and without SP1, performed over two times slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the beta SP3-enhanced XP's 35 seconds.

Vista's performance with the service pack increased less than two percent compared to performance without SP1 — much lower than XP's SP3 improvement of 10 percent.

[mrweasel]

and you got this info from where? Sources, please

[mikepossy]

and you got this info from where? Sources, please

Here is the link... for u mrweasel to get along

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1...9291081,00.htm

[cauzomb]

Moved from freakshow to OS

[cauzomb]

incase you were wondering weasel, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...hmarking+test+

[TurcoLoco]

Did it really come to you as a huge surprise?

Don't forget the origins of Windows:

[jholland1964]

Don't know why anyone would be surprised, as I read last week...Vista is the new ME. Frankly, think even ME was better.

This quote here, from http://www.news.com/Windows-XP-outsh...3-6220201.html

says it all:

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.

Well DUH! Personally I don't think the world was even 30% ready for Vista. This was a case of MS assuming that all would be able to run this OS with all of it's wonderful and progressive ideas...one of which being that the "world" would all be using high speed and not dial up. Vista machines are coming with the high speed connection "stuff" all ready set as default. I don't own a Vista machine but now have helped folks work on about 6 of them...two online via forums or email and the other four in person...Of those four, only one had highspeed at the time of the new purchase and she had just a few problems....disgust with the "new improved Windows Live Mail" instead of her favorite Outlook Express. Others had major problems UNTIL they switched to high speed. The two online people...one had high speed and didn't have many problems, the other is on dial up with ancient phone lines and major problems happened.