Windows XP Speed Boost Coming with SP3

[MrE]

Good mood but a bunch of disrespectful 15yr olds with hair longer than my girlfriends! LOL

That's the internet for ya! All types

 

[.geek]

Anyway, back at the ranch.

I wonder when we can expect to see SP3 for XP?

SP3 for Windows XP Professional is currently planned for 1H CY2008. This date is preliminary.

Source: Microsoft

 

[The_Techie]

Vista is probably becoming relatively faster from SP1 than XP is from SP3, nevermind what an office productivity suite says. It helps the constant indexing and sleep problems plus a lot of the gaming fixes. Likely more than you'd notice from installing SP3 on XP.

I wouldn't mind if Vista got a bit faster, maybe then I'd consider installing Vista again

 

[PeterCH]

The changes aren't just visual, the API is different to XP's so in some ways he's right.

I remember a lot of bad press following the release of 2000 and XP too, when MS decided to start basing their OS's on NT. It's a new OS, not just an upgrade from one of the previous versions so there's bound to be bugs. I thought that's what SP's sought to address?

There wasn't this much bad press. Secondly the jump from 16bit-32bit hybrid versions of Windows (9x and ME) to full blown NT based Windows
2000 (for Business) and XP (for home/gamers) was a huge difference.
With 16 bit/DOS based Win9x one app crashing brought down the entire
OS, it was unstable and overall slow when it came to multi-tasking.
Win 9x/ME were broken, they needed to be fixed. Windows Xp/2000
were not broken and still aren't. They work just fine. Vista just
adds DRM, a lot of unnecessary security prompts and more resource
use ie more resource hogging. Its essentially the same kernel but
jut more add-ons which aren't needed for improved stability or
performance. They're only there for DRM and because MS needs it's
R2-4000 per user again. Its a great cash cow for MS.

 

[kronoSX]

So i guess i am gonna stay with my dualboot vista and xp..untill vista is as fast as xp sp3

 

[mercurial]

No dude, seriously, that's a wide, sweeping remark. It's new...ish, that's all. Do you pay any attention to all the bad press it's gotten? System resource heavy, buggy, bad driver support, the fact that a LOT of people asked for XP to be installed again rather?

First year at University?

Perhaps if you could expand on this philosophical approach of yours?

i agree