Fri 29 Feb 2008
Well according to tests commissioned by Microsoft and performed by Principled Technologies, Vista SP1 is faster than the pre- service pack version, but is not always faster than the older Windows XP.
These test found that Vista SP1 was faster than the pre-service pack version at 87% of the tested consumer functions , but when they tested Vista SP1 against XP; XP was faster in some cases.
What they found was that after a computer came out of sleep mode Windows XP was faster at performing 61% of the tested consumer functions. While if the computer had not entered sleep mode since being started then Vista SP1 was faster in 74% of the consumer functions tested.
Overall Principle Technologies concluded that ‘Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP performed comparably on most test operations’, although there is some debate over these results.
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Hap tip to Computerworld for the idea for this post.