In a recent Macintosh computer commercial with a humorous edge to it, a sad-seeming “Windows guy” is shown confessing that he was undoing his upgrade to Windows Vista and restoring his Windows XP operating system. Reports from testing labs are showing that this is not just wishful thinking on the part of clever advertisers, but that people have real-life reasons for abandoning Vista. And, that reason is that XP simply works better and faster than Vista.

Interestingly, these surprising results that came from comparing the performance of XP against the “latest and greatest” Windows Vista were consistent regardless of which versions of the operating systems were used or the amount of RAM memory that was installed on the pc. The tests clearly showed that even when the Vista installation was upgraded to the most recent “Service Pack Beta One” package, Vista still consistently proved to be sluggish.

The researchers who ran the tests of the two operating systems compared both unpatched and patched versions of Windows XP and Vista. They ran the computer software Microsoft Office on a Dell notebook computer that featured a dual-core processor.

The test results showed the time it took for each of the system configurations to complete a number of given tasks in Office. These tasks included creating a complex document and creating a series of presentation slides. The times to complete these tasks under XP and under Vista were then carefully noted and compared against each other.

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