Windows XP SP3 to add performance boost?
For those hanging on to XP, good news may be in your future. It has been reported that the SP3 patch will boost performance by as much as 10%! As an XP user, I am looking forward to seeing if this pans out.
After pronouncing Windows Vista SP1 a “performance dud” two weeks ago, Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based software development firm, reported that an upcoming update for Windows XP will offer substantial performance gains.
Running an Office productivity test suite on a preview version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, Devil Mountain discovered a 10 percent performance boost over the current version of Windows XP, the company reported on its blog.
The news comes as a “nice bonus,” the research staff said on the blog, because SP3 was expected mainly to deliver bug fixes and consolidate various patches. “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 company said.
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