Sp3 for windows XP increases speed by 10%

November 27th, 2007

Is Microsoft admitting that bringing Vista on the market was a bad idea? The Beta testers of SP3 for windows XP are benching a 10% increase in speed for windows XP when updated to SP3.

This increases the gap between Vista and XP even more, especially since the update of Vista isn’t increasing anything anywhere. The difference between  XP and Vista in ease of use was already a little bit on the XP side, with this update it could be even more. Not many people will change platforms if there is no real improvement to get. As you can see in the graph, Vista isn’t the fastest anyway, the update even widens the gap a little…. To be honest, its a Office bench and doesn’t say anything about gaming or visual performance, but its a difference and probably not the only one. One of the main pros for Vista is the directx 10.x application, this doesn’t run on XP and is in the long run the new standard for games, so for gamers with high-end hardware Vista is the next step to ultimate gaming, for most computer users that are happy with their Internet and office capabilities it does matter that Vista is slower than XP and will probably make the choice to stay with XP easier.

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