Will SP1 Help Boost Windows Vista Deployments? Peter Galli - eWEEK Fri Nov 30, 12:57 PM ET In the year since
Microsoft
released
Windows Vista
for businesses, customers have stared at an ethereal barrier to adoption—Service Pack 1.
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Testers see Windows XP passing Vista By JESSICA MINTZ, AP Technology Writer 1 hour, 22 minutes ago SEATTLE -
Microsoft Corp.
’s Windows XP operating system is about to get faster and
Windows Vista
isn’t, according to a report that caused a stir online this week as industry watchers speculated that a zippier XP could keep customers from upgrading to Vista.
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Almost no one has anything good to say about Vista and the beaten and battered operating system is being trounced by its six years older brother, XP. In a new battery of tests, once and for all, XP is shown to be the performance champion leaving Vista in the dust.
Information Week
reports that Devil Mountain Software posted new results that pitted Windows XP, Vista and Vista SP1 Beta against each other. Even with the SP1 beta upgrade Vista was still a slow poke.
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Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
Tue Nov 27, 11:49 AM ET In the latest Mac versus PC ad, that put-upon Windows guy quietly concedes he's "downgrading" from Vista to XP. He may have good reason: new tests show that the older XP runs common productivity tasks significantly faster than
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Cue the OS flamewar theme song — there’s more potential fuel for the Vista hating fires in a recent set of speed tests. Although neither is available to the public yet, earlier reports suggest that upcoming service pack releases for XP and Vista have an unintended result — they make XP “considerably faster” than the much touted Vista.
First the good news. The third service pack for Windows XP, slated to arrive early next year, reportedly gives the venerable OS a near 10 percent performance boost. Those numbers come from Devil Mountain Software which put XP SP2 through a
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Windows XP Speed Boost Coming with SP3 Richard Koman,
newsfactor.com
2 hours, 7 minutes ago After pronouncing
Windows Vista SP1
a "performance dud" two weeks ago, Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based software development firm, reported that an upcoming update for
Windows XP
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There have been rumours abound for the past week about the possibility of a new service pack coming for Windows XP, and now Microsoft has confirmed that beta testing is underway for a release early next year. There are also claims already emerging of the possible speed and performance boost that SP3 will provide for those of us sticking with XP.
Having completed the first RC (release candidate) for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), Microsoft set about starting trials of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). The preview version, basically a fully featured trial version being beta tested for flaws, has now been released to 15,000 users who will continually give feedback, and report any errors in the upgrade.
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Rather than have 90% of businesses and IT folk wait to deploy Vista, Microsoft would rather have all of them do so now or sooner than later. That’s not going to happen, besides the cost to upgrade existing hardware, there are migration issues, hardware and software compatibility and the usual ills that come with a Microsoft operating system.
However, Vista is quite ready for home users and shouldn’t present too much of a problem on that front. Businesses, on the other hand have quite a few things to consider before rolling out a new operating system.
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Did Microsoft's Security Focus Help Vista? Elizabeth Montalbano and Robert McMillan, IDG News Service 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
Microsoft
's emphasis on improvements to security features in
Windows Vista
may have undermined business adoption of the OS, as many business and enterprise customers are still holding off on upgrading to the OS nearly a year after its release to them.
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One year later: Did Vista's focus on security pay off? Elizabeth Montalbano and Robert McMillan 1 hour, 59 minutes ago San Francisco -
Microsoft
's emphasis on improvements to security features in
Windows Vista
may have undermined business adoption of the OS as many business and enterprise customers are still holding off on upgrading to the OS nearly a year after its release to them.
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