After 10 months of Windows Vista release!!!

New tests have revealed that Windows XP, running the beta Service Pack 3, is twice as fast as the new Vista operating system, running Service Pack 1 beta. In other words, the tweaked Vista is more than twice as slow as the operating system (OS) its going to replace. Hell, even without the service pack its still more than twice as slow.

Devil Mountain Software ran typical Officebench tests on both operating systems running on identical systems, namely Dell XPS M1710 test bed with 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of RAM and discrete nVidia GeForce Go 7900GS video. By the way, the lower the seconds on the chart above, the faster it is.

This is just another in a long line of set-backs to Vista, Microsoft’s bloated successor to XP which many users don’t want but are being forced to use. Back in September, customer revolts forced Microsoft to hold off axing XP sales at the end of January 2008, until June.

The testers had this to say about Vista’s new patch:

“With the initial performance characteristics of Windows Vista leaving much to be desired, many IT organizations have put off deploying the new OS until the first service pack (SP1) is released by Microsoft early next year. The thinking goes that SP1 will address all of these early performance issues and somehow bring Windows Vista on par with - or at least closer to - Windows XP in terms of runtime performance.

Unfortunately, this is simply not the case. Extensive testing by the exo.performance.network (www.xpnet.com) research staff shows that SP1 provides no measurable relief to users saddled with sub-par performance under Vista."