Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test

http://msn-cnet.com.com/Windows-XP-o...ml?tag=newsmap

.... Microsoft has had to allow PC manufacturers to continue to sell XP on
new PCs, setting a deadline for the last sale at January 31. However, the
pressure from manufacturers and consumers has been so great that Microsoft
has been forced to extend the deadline another five months, until June.

- Bobb - wrote:
> http://msn-cnet.com.com/Windows-XP-o...ml?tag=newsmap
>
>
> ... Microsoft has had to allow PC manufacturers to continue to sell XP
> on new PCs, setting a deadline for the last sale at January 31. However,
> the pressure from manufacturers and consumers has been so great that
> Microsoft has been forced to extend the deadline another five months,
> until June.
>

And with Ubuntu being downloaded at the rate of a million downloads a
month, expect XP to be extended even further and expect an SP4.

Alias

"- Bobb -" <bobb@noemail.123> wrote in message
news:%...
> http://msn-cnet.com.com/Windows-XP-o...ml?tag=newsmap
>
> ... Microsoft has had to allow PC manufacturers to continue to sell XP on
> new PCs, setting a deadline for the last sale at January 31. However, the
> pressure from manufacturers and consumers has been so great that Microsoft
> has been forced to extend the deadline another five months, until June.
>


The test was run on a notebook with 1gb of RAM, underspecified for Vista and
way beyond the spec for which XP was first developed. If my memory serves me
correctly, the tests were deliberately tilted at making XP look better even
in SP2 guise..

No doubt if Win 2000 drivers were available for the machine, it would run
twice as fast as XP. Equally, if XP SP2 or 3 was run on a base level Win
2000 machine, XP would and did run like a dog.

So what exactly does the test prove? It proves that each Windows version
requires more capable hardware is all, hardware that is readily available
and relatively cheap.



--
Mike Hall - MVP
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx

Alias wrote:

>>
>
> And with Ubuntu being downloaded at the rate of a million downloads a
> month,


OMG!!!....more of your incessant and insidious lies?
Get some help you pathetic POS lying linux troll!
Frank

Frank wrote:
> Alias wrote:
>
>>>
>>
>> And with Ubuntu being downloaded at the rate of a million downloads a
>> month,
>
>
> OMG!!!....more of your incessant and insidious lies?
> Get some help you pathetic POS lying linux troll!
> Frank

A million a month scares you? Makes you jealous? Yep, and it makes you
lie, insult, use profanity and bluster.

Alias

Alias wrote:

> Frank wrote:
>
>> Alias wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> And with Ubuntu being downloaded at the rate of a million downloads a
>>> month,
>>
>>
>>
>> OMG!!!....more of your incessant and insidious lies?
>> Get some help you pathetic POS lying linux troll!
>> Frank
>
>
> A million a month scares you?

hehehe why...it's your "fantasy'...not mine.

Makes you jealous?

Of what? That POS toy os? You're one delusional pathological liar.
Frank

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:51:22 -0500, "Mike Hall - MVP"
<> wrote:


> So what exactly does the test prove? It proves that each Windows version
> requires more capable hardware is all, hardware that is readily available
> and relatively cheap.


Exactly! Each new version has more features than the one before, and
doing more requires more and faster hardware.

Fortunately for all of us, over the years the improvements in the
operating system have been more than matched by improvements and lower
prices in hardware. So what we get is a better operating system with
more and better features for less money.

It boggles my mind that people see fit to complain about this.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

- Bobb -;581905 Wrote:
> 'Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test | CNET News.com'
> (http://msn-cnet.com.com/Windows-XP-o...ml?tag=newsmap)
>
> .... Microsoft has had to allow PC manufacturers to continue to sell XP
> on
> new PCs, setting a deadline for the last sale at January 31. However,
> the
> pressure from manufacturers and consumers has been so great that
> Microsoft
> has been forced to extend the deadline another five months, until June.

The results of any benchmark test are about as effective as sunblock is
to a nuclear explosion - Utterly pointless!

As just about anyone would tell you, benchmark programs are usually
written with specific operating systems in mind. If the benchmarking
program for XP is run on Vista, the results will be skewed, and cannot
be taken as gospel. And comparing the scores of a XP Benchmark program
with those of a Vista benchmark program is like comparing apples with
oranges. They cannot be categorically compared.

What truly determines the viability of any OS is it's real-world
performance, not a synthetic benchmark, And in the past year in which
I've been using Vista, my conclusion is this - Despite it's greater
system requirements, my day-to-day productivity has improved. And that
is where the difference is. I can work more efficiently than I ever
could on XP.


--
dzomlija

_____________________
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nice to see 2 brainwashed MS drones agreeing with eachother...


how pathetic...


XP outperforms vista on all new and older hardware.. PERIOD.. no excuses..
its just faster...

the reason why Vista needs more is NOT because it has more features but
because its poorly desgined..

MS knows this, thats why they are DRASTICALLY sliming down the windows 7
core...


Guys wake up.. you are the VICTIMS of Vista... brainwashed and made to
comply.




"Ken Blake, MVP" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:51:22 -0500, "Mike Hall - MVP"
> <> wrote:
>
>
>> So what exactly does the test prove? It proves that each Windows version
>> requires more capable hardware is all, hardware that is readily available
>> and relatively cheap.
>
>
> Exactly! Each new version has more features than the one before, and
> doing more requires more and faster hardware.
>
> Fortunately for all of us, over the years the improvements in the
> operating system have been more than matched by improvements and lower
> prices in hardware. So what we get is a better operating system with
> more and better features for less money.
>
> It boggles my mind that people see fit to complain about this.
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

in real world scenariors vista performes far worse than these benchmarks
show


lol



"dzomlija" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> - Bobb -;581905 Wrote:
>> 'Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test | CNET News.com'
>> (http://msn-cnet.com.com/Windows-XP-o...ml?tag=newsmap)
>>
>> .... Microsoft has had to allow PC manufacturers to continue to sell XP
>> on
>> new PCs, setting a deadline for the last sale at January 31. However,
>> the
>> pressure from manufacturers and consumers has been so great that
>> Microsoft
>> has been forced to extend the deadline another five months, until June.
>
> The results of any benchmark test are about as effective as sunblock is
> to a nuclear explosion - Utterly pointless!
>
> As just about anyone would tell you, benchmark programs are usually
> written with specific operating systems in mind. If the benchmarking
> program for XP is run on Vista, the results will be skewed, and cannot
> be taken as gospel. And comparing the scores of a XP Benchmark program
> with those of a Vista benchmark program is like comparing apples with
> oranges. They cannot be categorically compared.
>
> What truly determines the viability of any OS is it's real-world
> performance, not a synthetic benchmark, And in the past year in which
> I've been using Vista, my conclusion is this - Despite it's greater
> system requirements, my day-to-day productivity has improved. And that
> is where the difference is. I can work more efficiently than I ever
> could on XP.
>
>
> --
> dzomlija
>
> _____________________
> Peter Alexander Dzomlija
> -Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? And as
> you die, so shall I be Reborn...-
>
> -Download MP3 Media Properties Explorer: --http://www.phx.co.za-
>
> - ASUS A8N32-SLI-Deluxe
> - AMD Athlon 64 Dual-Core 4800+
> - 4GB DDR400
> - 128MB ASUS nVidia 6600
> - Thermaltake Tai-Chi Chassis
> - 1207GB Formatted Storage
> - Vista Ultimate x64
> - CodeGear Delphi 2007See my rig at:
> http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/e...zomlija/Venus/