Well I’ve had Vista for almost a year now, and its been a great experience.  Most of my software from XP is still working with Vista, and the upgrade to Vista itself was a seamless process, much unlike when Windows XP came out.  Now with SP3 released for Windows XP it has surpassed Vista in with its own SP1 in service on various benchmark tests. Now the question is how much performance will you be willing to give up for style! I understand style over comfort, for example I have this crazy suit I hate wearing it but i am the flyest monkey at the party. So its a balancing act that Vista hasn’t definitely hasn’t mastered! CNET had the following to say!

Vista’s first service pack, to be released early next year, is intended to boost the operating system’s performance. However, when Vista with the Service Pack 1 (SP1) beta was put through benchmark testing by researchers at Florida-based software development company Devil Mountain Software, the improvement was not overwhelming, leaving the latest Windows iteration outshined by its predecessor.

Vista, both with and without SP1, performed notably slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the beta SP3-enhanced XP’s 35 seconds.

Vista’s performance with the service pack increased less than 2 percent compared to performance without SP1–much lower than XP’s SP3 improvement of 10 percent. The tests, run on a Dell XPS M1710 test bed with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB of RAM, put Microsoft Office 2007 through a set of productivity tasks, including creating a compound document and supporting workbooks and presentation materials.

In response to the test, a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement that although the company understood the interest in the service packs, they are “still in development”…..

What do you think? Windows XP or Vista?

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