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Vista’s Greatest Competitor

Posted by hts | November 28, 2007 .

You might wonder who is Vista’s greatest rival in the OS market - and you’ll probably think of Ubuntu, Fedora or whatever Linux distro. Well, you’re wrong. Surprisingly (or not), Vista has to outperform, before competing with Linux distro’s, it’s elder “cousin” (maybe brother), Windows XP. According to the researchers at Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based developer of performance management tools, Windows Vista runs common productivity tasks much slower than the elder Windows XP (both with the latest SP’s: XP-SP2/SP3, Vista-SP1).
Some key facts about the study:

  • The OS’s where tested on dual-core Dell notebooks

    • Besides that, tests were run on machines that had 1GB or 2GB of RAM.

  • Windows XP outperforms Vista on all tests

    • Regardless of the version or the amount of RAM, XP performed better than Vista in all benchmarks. In fact, it seems that XP is almost twice as faster as Vista. For example, notebooks running Vista SP1 took more than 80 seconds to complete a series of Office tasks in the OfficeBench test suite, while notebooks running Windows XP SP2 completed the tasks in just over 40 seconds.

  • The difference between 1GB and 2GB of RAM is an “amazing” 4% in OfficeBench tests

    • It seems that even with 2GB of RAM, Vista can’t handle very well, eating up all resources offered, no matter how much.

    What else can be said? Vista is an operating system launched by Microsoft, amid great advertising buzz, in Januray 2007, but which has since failed to become “the next standard” in OS’s - or at least convince the user to upgrade from XP.

    Also, a recent survey found that 30% of businesses have no plans to upgrade their computers to Vista — ever. Besides, concerned by Vista’s high resource requirement and compatibility with old PC components, lots of “voices” prompted big computer producers to reintroduce Windows XP as the preinstalled system.

    As a conclusion: Vista is yet to be a mature operating system (and I am still wondering whether it will ever be), so you’d better stick to Windows XP for a while (or even better, switch to Linux if you have no gaming desires - like me).

    via:original source

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  1. Starcraftmazter November 29, 2007 2:03 pm

    Very nice :)

    I totally agree, and if it wasn’t for DirectX 10, there would be no arguments at all for switching to Vista.

  2. slickpickle December 2, 2007 7:39 am

    so true!