Microsoft Coroporation's Windows XP operating system is about to get faster and Windows Vista isn't, according to a report which caused a stir this week as industry watchers speculated that a zipper version of XP could keep customers from upgrading to Vista.
Microsoft, however, said it's too early to evaluate the two service packs it plans to release next year.
Early versions are already in the hands of testers like Devil Mountain Software Inc, which ran several versions of XP and Vista through a test stimulating common desktop computing tasks.
It found the original Vista performed 50% to 100% slower than the prevalent XP Service Pack 2 or SP2.
Vista SP1, due out in the early 2008, barely improved the operating the operating system's performance.
But XP SP3, scheduled for the first half of 2008, did improve on XP's earlier performance, running 10% faster than SP2.
That's a strike against Vista for IT professionals on the fence about switching, according to Craig Barth, the company's chief technology officer.
Kevin Kutz, director of Microsoft's Windows Client group, said the company is working on speeding up tasks such as transferring files between PC's, but its a work in progress.
Michael Cherry, an analyst for a research group in the US, said it's impossible to know Microsoft has started running Vista SP1 for speed. Even if XP gets faster, consumers and businesses may still switch to Vista.
"It might be an acceptable thing to me if it were slightly slower, but mor stable", Cherry said.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Windows XP is going to be a lot Faster than Windows Vista
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