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XP SP2 Can Slow Down Business Apps

Posted by timothy on from the tradeoffs-are-everywhere dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Mobile PC magazine installed XP SP2 on a bunch of notebooks and benchmarked them, finding that SP2 caused a 9-percent performance reduction in business productivity apps. While a couple of notebooks performed better, the majority took a 3- to 22-percent performance hit." For now, the story is just at the top of the Mobile PC website, but they promise more details in an upcoming issue.

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  1. Re:You might be hitting the socket limit.. by pavera · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I would say the proper way to slow the spread of worms and ddos attacks is to have a secure os, not limit the system's ability to connect... But that is MS way with security... "Oh, executable attachments and word/excel spreadsheets might carry viruses... hmm easy fix, don't let our mail clients receive those attachments anymore, no one sends word docs as attachments anyway"... "Oh, worms and viruses are using our system for ddos attacks.. hmmm ok don't let the computer make more than 5 simultaneous connections, no one needs more than that anyway" The boys in Redmond really have crappy assumptions about what people use computers for most of the time it seems.