InfoWorld says WinXP much slower than Win2K

iforgotmyfirstlogon submitted an InfoWorld story that makes the shocking claim that XP is slower then 2k for business use. Pretty graphs, comparisons of SMP, and they even tested without the eye candy. My favorite comment is this one "it appears that for light-duty service on the newest hardware, Windows XP with Office XP is an acceptable choice -- if an 11 percent performance hit, or 53 minutes added to an 8-hour day, is acceptable." And thats the best case scenario.

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Silly people

[gergi]

Don't you know? Of course it's going to run slower: It's got all those extra features that win2k didn't have like um... hmmm...

even more shocking...

[Anonymous Coward]

"InforWorld story that makes the shocking claim that XP is slower then 2k for business use"

even more shocking is that InfoWorld has changed their name to InforWorld, and that the previously respectable publication has taken to printing such elementary mistakes as "slower then" rather than "slower than"

troll me, flamebait me, i don't care. you should check your spelling and learn the difference between the common homonyms! and here i thought this site was for geeks and nerds...

Re:even more shocking...

[sulli]

But without the typos, it wouldn't be salshdto!

Re:even more shocking...

[iforgotmyfirstlogon]

In my defense, Taco edited the piss out of what I posted. It was error-free when I sent it in.

- Freed

Microsoft announces Windows XP Turbo!

[Refried Beans]

Now with compiler optimizations!

This just in...

[Telek]

Running Word 6.0 on Windows 3.11 a Pentium 4 significantly outperforms Office Xp on the same machine!!!

Who'da thunkit?

Re:Not much of a surprise

[joshjs]

This is why I still have my typewriter: you don't even have to tell it to print, it's so damn fast.

As the old saying goes...

[ptomblin]

Grove giveth, and Gates taketh away.

53 minutes

[JMZero]

I have to work for an extra 53 minutes each day since we switched to Windows XP. My job is to hit the recalc button on my spreadsheet 42,000 times a day.

I've decided to switch all our desktops to multi processor machines too. Small performance increases (and of course, computer performance is THE bottleneck for worker productivity) are well worth raising our hardware expenditure by 50%.

Of course XP is a little slower, but that's neither critical information, nor all that surprising. At least he could have done benchmarks on server software (where performance is a little more of a limiter).

Re:not the only performance hit

[scotch]

You can even set XP to use the old GUI with a single click.

Does Amazon know about this? Someone call Bezos!

See? Linux will never compete with Windows.

[MongooseCN]

Linux is going in the complete opposite direction of Windows and getting faster with each version. If Linux is going to compete with Windows it better start getting slow, and getting slow fast!

Independence test

[wytcld]

"independently of Microsoft: CNET/ZDNET, eTesting Labs, eWeek, PC Magazine, and PC World"

Independently of the big three automakers, ExxonMobile says, "We objectively consider the newest crop of SUVs to be the most wonderful ever, and urge their immediate purchase by all."

XP ==

[dbretton]

Xtra Pokey...

Re:not the only performance hit

[jlbennett2]

What's a CLI?

Network Engineer since 1998!