Windows XP could get bigger service boost than Vista
Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system is about to get faster and Windows Vista isn’t, according to a report that caused a stir online this week as industry watchers speculated that a zippier XP could keep customers from upgrading to Vista. Microsoft, however, said it’s too early to evaluate the two service packs it plans to release next year.
Wellington, Fla.-based Devil Mountain Software ran several versions of XP and Vista through a test simulating common desktop computing tasks. It found the original Vista performed 50 percent to 100 percent slower than the prevalent XP Service Pack 2, or SP2. Vista SP1, due out in the first quarter of next year, barely improved the operating system’s performance. But XP SP3, scheduled for the first half of next year, did improve on XP’s earlier performance, running 10 percent faster than SP2.
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