How embarassing — Microsoft commissions tests
that compare Vista and XP, with the goal no doubt being to show how
much better the new version is. Except that’s not what the test results
prove.
Principled Technologies Inc., which performed the tests on the vendor’s behalf, showed Vista SP1 actually lagged XP
on about 46 per cent of the business-oriented operations it measured.
(The gap was 61 per cent on the consumer-oriented tests, but that’s not
primarily what we’re concerned with here.)
Important to note is that XP shone in tests on PCs that had just
come out of sleep mode. In cold boot tests, Vista picked up the pace.
Whether that’s enough to trigger massive Vista adoptions is another
story.
