Mark Gilbert’s Blog

I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve had a lot of other things on my plate. I’m here now though so that’s the important thing.

I read a wonderful tongue in cheek review of the upgrade benefits of Windows XP when compared to Vista.

To be honest there is only one conclusion to be made; Microsoft has really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal. From my testing, discussions with friends and colleagues, and a review of the material out there on the web there seems to be no doubt whatsoever that that upgrade to XP is well worth the money. Microsoft can really pat themselves on the back for a job well done, delivering an operating system which is much faster and far more reliable than its predecessor. Anyone who thinks there are problems in the Microsoft Windows team need only point to this fantastic release and scoff loudly.

Have a read of the whole thing, I find it’s great, a little biased as one would expect but funny all the same.

Cheers

With Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 both on the horizon people have started benchmarking the two. The Florida based software development company Devil Mountain Software showed that XP still outperforms Vista with the new service packs applied to both OS’s.

Apparently Vista took 80 seconds compared to 35 seconds for XP SP3. The SP1 update for Vista made little or no difference to speed, SP3 for XP on the other hand gave a 10% performance increase over an XP SP2 machine.

So it would seem that a year after launch Vista is yet to live up to it’s hype. It is still outclassed by the 6 years old Windows XP and many people simply want nothing to do with it.

Well 2008 may bring new things for Vista, or it may simply be more of the same crap that has plagued the OS since launch, time will, as always, tell.

Cheers