[Dean's World] Dave Price: Things Looking Ugly For Vista

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Posted by Dave Price:
Things Looking Ugly For Vista
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1196443221.shtml


   First there were all the [1]DRM complaints, and [2]now this:

     Wellington, Fla.-based Devil Mountain Software ran several versions
     of XP and Vista through a test simulating common desktop computing
     tasks. It found the original Vista performed 50 percent to 100
     percent slower than the prevalent XP Service Pack 2, or SP2.

   I'll probably get a new Dell in the next couple months, and it will
   almost certainly be running XP, not Vista (still heinous, I know, but
   I'm too lazy to run Unix at home).
   Hopefully, enough people will continue to shun Vista that it will
   never fully supplant XP.

References

   1. http://www.forbes.com/security/2007/02/10/microsoft-vista-drm-tech-security-cz_bs_0212vista.html
   2. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_xp_sp3_performance_2