More Evidence That XP is Vista's Main Competitor

Ian Lamont writes "Computerworld is reporting that Windows XP Service Pack 3 runs MS Office 10% faster than XP SP2 — and is 'considerably faster' than Vista SP1. XP SP3 isn't scheduled to be released until next year, but testers at Devil Mountain Software — the same company which found Vista SP 1 to be hardly any faster than the debut version of Vista — were able to run some benchmarking tests on a release candidate of XP SP3, says the report. While this may be great news for XP owners, it is a problem for Microsoft, which is having trouble convincing business users to migrate to Vista."

Comments

Re:Games

[LingNoi]

Wine FAQ...

When users think of an emulator, they tend to think of things like Super Nintendo emulators or virtualization software. This is the wrong way to think about Wine - Wine runs Windows applications in essentially the same way Windows does. There is no inherent loss of speed due to "emulation" when using Wine, nor is there a need to open Wine before running your application.

Have you finished asking stupid flamebait questions that can could be answered by looking at the website? Or is it that I hurt your pride by pointing out your dumb mistake and now you're going to keep replying until you feel your e-penis is bigger then mine?

Re:the ever elusive desktop

[HAKdragon]

No wonder Vista runs like crap, you only have half a gig of RAM. ;) (Hint: GB != Gb)