Spartan Erik
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Being a dedicated XP fan, and refusing to upgrade to Vista, there is some great news!
"Wellington, Fla.-based Devil Mountain Software ran several versions of XP and Vista through a test simulating common desktop computing tasks. It found the original Vista performed 50 percent to 100 percent slower than the prevalent XP Service Pack 2, or SP2.
Vista SP1, due out in the first quarter of 2008, barely improved the operating system's performance.
But XP SP3, scheduled for the first half of 2008, did improve on XP's earlier performance, running 10 percent faster than SP2."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/microsoft_xp_sp3_performance
I ought to buy up some OEM copies of XP on campus while I still can!
It's unfortunate that on June 30th of 2008, XP support will be dropped; but what support would you need for an operating system that is rock solid if maintained? Vista on the other hand..
"Wellington, Fla.-based Devil Mountain Software ran several versions of XP and Vista through a test simulating common desktop computing tasks. It found the original Vista performed 50 percent to 100 percent slower than the prevalent XP Service Pack 2, or SP2.
Vista SP1, due out in the first quarter of 2008, barely improved the operating system's performance.
But XP SP3, scheduled for the first half of 2008, did improve on XP's earlier performance, running 10 percent faster than SP2."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/microsoft_xp_sp3_performance
I ought to buy up some OEM copies of XP on campus while I still can!
It's unfortunate that on June 30th of 2008, XP support will be dropped; but what support would you need for an operating system that is rock solid if maintained? Vista on the other hand..
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