Windows XP SP3 outshines Vista wtf??

Windows XP outshines Vista in benchmarking test

New tests have revealed that Windows XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.

Vista's first service pack, to be released early next year, is intended to boost the operating system's performance. However, when Vista with the Service Pack 1 (SP1) beta was put through benchmark testing by researchers at Florida-based software development company Devil Mountain Software, the improvement was not overwhelming, leaving the latest Windows iteration outshined by its predecessor.
Vista, both with and without SP1, performed notably slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the beta SP3-enhanced XP's 35 seconds.
Vista's performance with the service pack increased less than 2 percent compared to performance without SP1--much lower than XP's SP3 improvement of 10 percent. The tests, run on a Dell XPS M1710 test bed with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB of RAM, put Microsoft Office 2007 through a set of productivity tasks, including creating a compound document and supporting workbooks and presentation materials.
In response to the test, a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement that although the company understood the interest in the service packs, they are "still in development" and will continue to evolve before their release. "It has always been our goal to deliver service packs that meet the full spectrum of customer needs," the spokesperson said.
If SP1 does not evolve sufficiently, it could be another setback for Vista, with many businesses waiting to adopt the operating system until the service pack is released.
[Via - News.com]

haha now what are you going to do with all those unsold vistas?

this is no news. Microsoft's apps always suck at the beginning but then they find a way to make it work and sell it to everyone

Microsoft's apps suck all the time not just the beginning

advantages vs disadvantages?
What is actually new?
The best system microsoft had was windows 3.1 with Dos 6.22 with a 5.0 supplement!
At that time the OS was what it was supposed to be; which was to allow your hardware to interact with other hardware. Input devices to processing devices to storage devices to output device. They finally put out the xbox which they should use as their new OS. The later would bring a better following.