Vista’s upcoming Service Pack fails to add speed to OS

Vista SP1Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is not measurably faster than the original stock edition, a Florida-based developer of performance testing and network metrics software said Monday.

“Microsoft has hinted that SP1 is faster than Vista RTM,” said Craig Barth, the chief technology officer at Devil Mountain Software, referring to the release to manufacturing version of the operating system. “But we found pretty much nothing measurable. It surprised me as much as it surprised everyone else, but the numbers are the numbers.”

“Our goal wasn’t to bash Vista,” said Barth. “We’ve been doing this for a while, we know how to do it, and we tried to be as clinical as possible. But SP1 is not going to be a panacea for any performance problems users have with Vista. If you’ve been disappointed with the performance of Windows Vista, you’re not going to be any happier with SP1.”

The bottom line: It’s Vista’s architecture and feature set — Barth cited Volume Shadow Copy, Vista’s snapshot service, as an example — not a lack of fine-tuning or bug fixes that makes it perform poorly on PCs that run Windows XP blazingly fast. Read the full article on PCWorld.Com

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  1. Vista’s upcoming Service Pack fails to add speed to OS « Sonjaya’s Blog Says:
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    [...] 20 November 2007 at 1:54 pm (Sekedar……, VistaSuck) Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) is not measurably faster than the original stock edition, a Florida-based developer of performance testing and network metrics software said Monday.“Microsoft has hinted that SP1 is faster than Vista RTM,” said Craig Barth, the chief technology officer at Devil Mountain Software, referring to the release to manufacturing version of the operating system. “But we found pretty much nothing measurable. It surprised me as much as it surprised everyone else, but the numbers are the numbers.” Read the rest of this entry » [...]

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