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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. Poll question! by corsair2112 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I post an "article" on my 5 megs of webspace provided to me by my ISP denouncing Windows XP saying that installing SP2 will steal my first born and rape my cats, then "create" some benchmarks to prove my point, then submit the article to slashdot, will it make it on the frontpage?

    I'll even conclude in the article that running linux will solve world hunger and even do my laundry.

    1. Re:Poll question! by Stevyn · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes it will. And the third post will point out it's a dupe.

      Nothing to see here; move along.

  2. Maybe not faster, but more of the same apps! by EtherAlchemist · · Score: 4, Funny


    I found one instance where a fix actually allows you to pirate OTHER software (or at the very least violate otherwise restrictive "one machine at a time" clauses in the EULA).

    I installed SP2 and didn't notice any problems at all. Then, I fired up Fireworks which has a little util that sees if other copies using the same license are running on the network (who, me?) and was prompted by Windows telling me that the service had been blocked and did I want to Continue Blocking, Unblock or should it Ask Me Later.

    Well, so far, choosing Ask Me Later has enabled (for testing, of course) running multiple copies of single license software when we would not have been able to previously.

    Neat! Thanx Bill!

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  3. so its come to this. by JVert · · Score: 5, Funny

    This should actually be posted in the politics corner. I gotta admit ./ is doing a lot better job at playing politics then certain US canidates. Seriously, a service pack to perform maintence and add some very usefull features. What is the general response? "SP2 broke my edonkey and made my girlfriend (online) break up with me." OH OH! now its slower with certain progams because they switched some compile flags that they should have enabled years ago!

  4. Isn't that how it always is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can either get your ass kicked by gamers for having a slow machine, or by hackers for having an insecure one.

  5. WINDOWS by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...actually HAS business apps.

  6. News Flash! by Phat_Tony · · Score: 4, Funny
    XP SP II Can Slow Down Business Aps!

    Similar problems have been found with XP SP I, the original XP, along with Windows 2000, 98, ME, CE, 95, and 3.1.

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  7. Sheesh, slowdown! That's nothing... by YE · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...some business apps like Gator even refuse to run!

  8. Re:Buffer checks by glitch23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "did you check parameters here? potential buffer overflow? what if this is NULL?" And it wasn't even important code he was working on.

    Clippy can still be dangerous if he goes unchecked.

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