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January 02, 2008

Windows Vista: it's not just your imagination

For those of you unfortunate enough to have moved to Windows Vista, it's not just your imagination that your computer is actually slower than it was under Windows XP:

Analysis: Moving from Office 2007 to Office 2003 definitely improved Vista's showing. Instead of being over 2x slower than XP on the same OfficeBench workload, Vista is now "only" 1.8x slower.

To quote Darth Vader: "Impressive...most impressive."

H/T to Mathew Foscarini for the link.

Update: Steve Udovenko sent along a link to this report, which includes a QotD-quality summary:

Executive Executive Summary

The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history

Posted by Nicholas at January 2, 2008 08:29 AM
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