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Windows XP Beyond Compare To Vista
By Joel Wannamaker
In a recent Macintosh computer commercial with a humorous edge
to it, a sad-seeming "Windows guy" is shown confessing
that he was undoing his upgrade to Windows Vista and restoring
his Windows XP operating system.
Reports from testing labs are showing that this is not just wishful
thinking on the part of clever advertisers, but that people have
real-life reasons for abandoning Vista. And, that reason is that
XP simply works better and faster than Vista.
Surprising Results
Interestingly, these surprising results that came from comparing
the performance of XP against the "latest and greatest"
Windows Vista were consistent regardless of which versions of
the operating systems were used or the amount of RAM memory that
was installed on the computer.
The tests clearly showed that even when the Vista installation
was upgraded to the most recent "Service Pack Beta One"
package, Vista still consistently proved to be sluggish.
Used Patched And Unpatched Versions
The research engineers responsible for running these trials of
the two Windows operating systems used both patched and unpatched
versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista in their comparisons.
They used a Dell notebook computer that was equipped with a dual
processing core and tested the Microsoft Office computer software
with the different operating systems.
The test results showed the time it took for each of the system
configurations to complete a number of given tasks in Office.
These tasks included creating a complex document and creating
a series of presentation slides. The times to complete these tasks
under XP and under Vista were then carefully noted and compared
against each other.
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Windows XP Was Twice As Fast As Vista
The results were not at all what the researchers were expecting
to report. Not only were all of the tested functions faster with
the XP operating system installed, but the testers were surprised
to find that XP proved to be approximately twice as fast as the
operations performed in Vista, in almost all of the tests.
This is a significant difference in speed and undoubtedly is
a difference that will be noticeable to even casual computer users.
For power users, such a drastic reduction in speed is not only
frustrating but simply unacceptable. Because of this, many people
who had "upgraded" to Vista have subsequently gone back
and reinstalled XP on their machines.
It is no wonder that the folks at Apple grabbed the opportunity
to poke fun at the latest "upgrade" offered to Microsoft
Windows users.
Vista Was Resource Hungry
On top of the bad news that came out of those speed comparisons
of XP versus Vista, the other testing delivered some additional
blows. The experiments with the two operating systems also clearly
showed that Vista demonstrated a tendency to be "resource-hungry"
and gobbled up virtually all of the extra RAM memory that might
be added to a computer.
When testers doubled the memory in the test machine from one
gigabyte to two gigabytes, the result was a measly 4% improvement
in performance.
Not only is Vista vexed with these performance problems, but
at this time there are very few new applications that have been
re-written for the Vista version, providing very little motivation
for people to spend the money on this upgrade.
Taken together, it is no wonder that people are choosing to stick
with their Windows XP system until there are more compelling reasons
to make the switch.
About the Author:
Joel Wannamaker has written a number of articles on computers
and software including
Internet Traffic,
Start A Website,
Internet Connection Speed,
In Education Online,
Affiliate Programs,
Search Engine Optimisation,
Pay Per Click
Free Search Engine,
SEO Search Engine,
Search Marketing,
Search Engine Optimization Google.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
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