Windows XP Is Still Better Than Vista

Recently, an Apple Computer commercial for the Mac is a featured down and out "Windows people," he added sheepishly confessed that in the unlikely step of uninstalling his recent Windows Vista update, and a return to the previous Windows XP system took. While a clever scenario for an ad, as it seems it was not far from the truth. In the course of extensive tests, some independent computer researchers found that XP is not much better than Vista in allled by him.

It is interesting that these surprising results from comparing the performance of Windows XP to the "latest and greatest" Windows Vista were consistent regardless of which versions of operating systems have been used or the amount of RAM memory installed on the PC , was born. The tests clearly showed that even if the Vista installation to the latest "Service Pack Beta One" package, Vista has been updated yet to prove consistentlywill remain slow.

To run extensive tests installed, the researchers, both patched and unpatched versions of the two systems, that were Windows XP and Vista. On a Dell laptop with a dual-core processor to run and they used the Microsoft Office application, with each version these operating systems.

The test results showed that the time required for the individual system configurations made a series of tasks completed in Office. These tasks included the creation of acomplex document and the creation of a series of presentation slides. The times for these tasks under XP and under Vista were then carefully noted and compared.

The results were not what the researchers had expected to report. Not only that all the tested features quickly installed with the XP operating system, but the testers were surprised to find that XP will be carried out at about twice as fast as the operations, provedin Vista, in almost all of the tests.

This is a significant difference in the speed and is certainly a difference between being the tangible, even casual PC users. For power users, such a drastic reduction in speed is not only frustrating, but simply not acceptable. For this reason, many people who had "upgraded" to Vista went back and then re-install XP on their computers.

It is no wonder that the folks at Apple took the opportunity to make fun ofthe latest "upgrade" offered to Microsoft Windows users.

On top of the bad news that came out of those speed comparisons of XP versus Vista, the other testing delivered some additional blows. The experiments with the two operating systems also clearly showed that Vista demonstrated a tendency to be "resource-hungry" and gobbled up virtually all of the extra RAM memory that might be added to a computer. When testers doubled the memory in the test machine from one Gigabyte to two gigabytes, the result was a meager 4% improvement in performance.

Even if there are no performance problems with Vista at the moment have been no major new programs that have been developed to run, only to Vista. But compelled by these two factors, people do not feel the money to leave and go through the effort to switch to Windows XP.