Vista vanquished by XP in performance tests
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Almost no one has anything good to say about Vista and the beaten and battered operating system is being trounced by its six years older brother, XP. In a new battery of tests, once and for all, XP is shown to be the performance champion leaving Vista in the dust.
Information Week reports that Devil Mountain Software posted new results that pitted Windows XP, Vista and Vista SP1 Beta against each other. Even with the SP1 beta upgrade Vista was still a slow poke.
Tests were run on a dual core notebook with 1GB and 2GB of memory, unpatched and fully patched versions of the operating systems as well as Microsoft Office.
Systems running Vista SP1 took 80 seconds to complete several tasks in the OfficeBench software and the Windows XP systems took just over 40 seconds. Vista was also shown to eat up any additional memory that was installed with the 2GB Vista tests performing a mere 4% faster.
With nearly a third of businesses not even considering an upgrade to Vista, Microsoft had better get it right with Windows 7.
Windows XP SP3 is even showing performance improvements, why the same can’t happen with Vista SP1 is a mystery, either Microsoft doesn’t want to or it simply can’t do so.
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