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Sunday, December 9, 2007

Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show

In the latest Mac versus PC ad, that put-upon Windows guy quietly concedes he's downgrading" from Vista to XP. He may have good reason: new tests show that the older XP runs common productivity tasks significantly faster than Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s newest operating system.

Researchers at Devil Mountain Software, a Florida-based developer of performance management tools, have posted data from their most recent Windows performance tests -- and Vista, even after it's been upgraded to the new Service Pack 1 beta package, is shown to be a laggard.

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