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Comments: 3 +-   More evidence that XP is Vista's main competitor-> on Sunday November 25 2007, @08:35PM Ian Lamont

Submitted by Ian Lamont on Sunday November 25 2007, @08:35PM
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Ian Lamont writes "Computerworld is reporting that Windows XP Service Pack 3 runs MS Office 10% faster than XP SP2 — and is "considerably faster" than Vista SP1. XP SP3 isn't scheduled to be released until next year, but testers at Devil Mountain Software — the same company which found Vista SP 1 to be hardly any faster than the debut version of Vista — were able to run some benchmarking tests on a release candidate of XP SP3, says the report. While this may be great news for XP owners, it is a problem for Microsoft, which is having trouble convincing business users to migrate to Vista: 'Vista's biggest competition isn't Apple or Novell or Red Hat; it's Microsoft itself, it's XP, [Forrester Research analyst Benjamin Gray] said. So enamored of XP are businesses that Microsoft may feel obligated to extend the operating system's mainstream support past its current April 2009 expiration date. ... He attributed the lowered expectations to a lack of detailed information about Vista in 2006; too-high prices for PCs with 2GB of memory, which is essentially the minimum needed for Vista, according to company managers; and a larger-than-expected number of incompatible applications.'"
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    • It may be FUD, it may also be the way the systems are being marketed to the businesses. Given how much of a markup some OEMs sell their RAM, you can see how this perception could be seen as valid. Besides, you probably blasted all the bloatware off of your own system (I sure did). Not every business user can or will do that. Some probably end up adding more crap than you would never dream of putting on your box, so 2gig might seem like the "minimum" for their shoddy PC habits.

      I mean, how many of them
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