Windows XP Service Pack 3 Trounces Vista In Speed Tests
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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