Vista - Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test

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By Suzanne Tindal
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Story last modified Tue Nov 27 06:26:42 PST 2007


New tests have revealed that Windows XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has
twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.
Vista's first service pack, to be released early next year, is intended to
boost the operating system's performance. However, when Vista with the
Service Pack 1 (SP1) beta was put through benchmark testing by researchers at
Florida-based software development company Devil Mountain Software, the
improvement was not overwhelming, leaving the latest Windows iteration
outshined by its predecessor.

Vista, both with and without SP1, performed notably slower than XP with SP3
in the test, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the
beta SP3-enhanced XP's 35 seconds.

Vista's performance with the service pack increased less than 2 percent
compared to performance without SP1--much lower than XP's SP3 improvement of
10 percent. The tests, run on a Dell XPS M1710 test bed with a 2GHz Core 2
Duo CPU and 1GB of RAM, put Microsoft Office 2007 through a set of
productivity tasks, including creating a compound document and supporting
workbooks and presentation materials.

In response to the test, a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement that
although the company understood the interest in the service packs, they are
"still in development" and will continue to evolve before their release. "It
has always been our goal to deliver service packs that meet the full spectrum
of customer needs," the spokesperson said.

If SP1 does not evolve sufficiently, it could be another setback for Vista,
with many businesses waiting to adopt the operating system until the service
pack is released.

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A year after its launch, only 13 percent of businesses have adopted Vista,
according to a survey of IT professionals.

Microsoft admits that the launch has not gone as well as the company would
have liked. "Frankly, the world wasn't 100 percent ready for Windows Vista,"
corporate vice president Mike Sievert said in a recent interview at
Microsoft's partner conference in Denver.

Microsoft has not done enough to make users aware of the benefits of Vista,
NPD analyst Chris Swenson said at the conference. "The problem is that there
are a lot of complex new features in Vista, and you need to educate consumers
about them...much like Apple educating the masses about the possibilities of
the iPhone or focusing on a single feature or benefit of the Mac OS in the
Mac-versus-PC commercials. Microsoft should be educating the masses about the
various new features in a heavy rotation of Vista in TV, radio, and print
ads. But the volume of ads (for Vista) has paled in comparison to the ads run
for XP."

XP has proved to be more popular than its younger sibling, with the first
six months of U.S. retail sales of box copies of Vista 59.7 percent below
those of XP's in the equivalent period after its release.

Microsoft has had to allow PC manufacturers to continue to sell XP on new
PCs, setting a deadline for the last sale at January 31. However, the
pressure from manufacturers and consumers has been so great that Microsoft
has been forced to extend the deadline another five months, until June.

According to Microsoft, sales of Vista have been picking up, with the
software giant reporting 88 million units sold.

Suzanne Tindal of ZDNet Australia reported from Sydney. CNET News.com's Ina
Fried contributed to this article.

romanom wrote:Jeez. The whole world is screwed up and Vista is ok!
Ha Ha!

Eric

The fact that Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 are still in beta, we
shouldn't be surprised if we see these now. Lets wait until the final
products have been released before jumping to a conclusion or having a
concern.
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I really wish that there is a DX10 for XP then I’ll through Vista the trash.
Sorry for all the vista lovers but this is real.

The only way you'll ever get DirectX 10 for XP is if the entire driver architecture for XP is re-written.

XP used primarily kernel-mode drivers, wheras Vista runs most drivers in user-mode. DirectX 10 was written with this in mind. Because of this change in architecture, it is highly unlikely that DX10 will ever be ported to XP.

Thanx dud for the tech. flash
I thought one day this maybe possible .. thanks again

> 10 percent. The tests, run on a Dell XPS M1710 test bed with a 2GHz Core 2Pfft, 1GB of RAM? Now there was a fair test. That's like trying to
compare Windows 3.1 on a 640K machine with Windows XP with 640K.

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Mark R. Cusumano
Skype Name: mark.cusumano

Of course xp runs faster than vista. Vista is alot more complicated. Think what speed you would get under windows 3.1. Just becasue something is faster in the benchmark does not mean that the processing is faster. You will find that the processing speed is all down to the drivers and speed of the CPU (and other hardware related issues). The code works just as fast, it is just that in Vista there is alot more of it.

plus it was on a dell computer was that a laptop. the dell laptop a friend
had rented from rent-a-center place didn't impress me at all.

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