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A group of researchers is declaring the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to be a performance dud. Researchers from the exo performance network said that a series of in-house benchmark tests showed that users hoping to receive a speed boost from the OS update will be left sorely disappointed. "After extensive testing of both RTM and SP1-patched versions of Windows Vista, it seems clear that the hoped-for performance fixes that Microsoft has been hinting at never materialized," the group said in a report posted to a company blog.
The tests were run using software from Devil Mountain Software, which also hosts the group's site. The researchers used a Dell notebook with 1GB of RAM for the tests. The benchmark tests measured performance in Microsoft Office 2007, as well as multitasking and streaming media benchmarks also run. The results from the SP1-patched system were nearly identical to those from the version of Vista released to manufacturers, said the researchers. "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," read the report. "Unfortunately, this is simply not the case." The researchers conclude that users who had been waiting for the update to fix pokey performance will not be getting any respite in the short term. "If you've been disappointed with the performance of Windows Vista to date, get used to it," they wrote. "SP1 is simply not the panacea that many predicted." Article from VNUNET No one has commented on this article. |
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