Feb 28 2008
More Vista Benchmark “news”
The Vista SP1 benchmarking silliness keeps getting, well, sillier…
MS commissioned a company to run and report on: Responsiveness of Windows Vista, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows XP on common home / office tasks
Immediately it was picked up by several places as news.
The results are in — XP trumps Vista in benchmark tests
How embarassing — Microsoft commissions tests that compare Vista and XP, with the goal no doubt being to show how much better the new version is. Except that’s not what the test results prove.
Principled Technologies Inc., which performed the tests on the vendor’s behalf, showed Vista SP1 actually lagged XP on about 46 per cent of the business-oriented operations it measured. (The gap was 61 per cent on the consumer-oriented tests, but that’s not primarily what we’re concerned with here.)
Microsoft: Windows XP faster than Vista SP1 in some cases Windows XP is faster than the new Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in completing common consumer and business tasks on PCs coming out of sleep mode, according to tests commissioned by Microsoft Corp.
Report: Vista on par with XP performance; SP1 is fasterIn any event, if you download the above linked reports (the first two are new while the next two are from last year), you’ll discover, surprise surprise, that “overall, Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP performed comparably on most test operations [but] Windows Vista SP1 was notably more responsive after rebooting than Windows XP on several common home operations.” This was true for both common home and business tasks.
Gentlemen, start your complaining.
First you’ll notice the articles seem to have completely different spins on the same info. (XP faster, XP a little faster, XP not faster)
Second, this study was PAYED FOR BY MICROSOFT.
Comments anyone???
February 28th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Vista SP1 for me has been as fast if not faster then XP SP2. I’m going by the ‘feel’ of things not any benchmarks.
I am happy with Vista.
February 28th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
You know what Gary? In the end that is all that counts.
February 29th, 2008 at 1:06 am
I find myself agreeing with Gary. I would have to say, if only by personal experience, that Vista is a much more robust and stable OS over XP SP2 & SP3 RC2. It’s only by applying third party add’ons, such as non-certified applications and hardware, where things get a little dicey. Don’t get me wrong, there is much room for improvement with Vista, but it will come soon enough and I’m willing to stay around and see what happens next…
Thanks for a great blog tweakhound.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:39 am
I know that XP SP2 is very reliable, faster than Vista SP1 and a very good OS overall but after 3 months using Vista in one of my PC’s I just love Vista, after some tweaking. I love the looks and the feeling of it and to tell you the truth I can’t notice the differences.