Manipulators
So when I saw a poorly informed blurb claiming Vista is 50% slower than XP I wrote it off as BS. But then a couple people sent it to me so I looked into it in more depth…
Original Story.
And I confirm my call of BULLSHIT. CIO Today? Devil Mountain Software? It’s like Gartner group FUD but without even the name of Gartner to back it. It’s transparently a company trying to make a name for themselves by saying something controversial and hoping nobody actually looks into what they said. Which isn’t likely given the claim…
1st, their benchmarks are *Office Tasks*. Exactly what modern computer can’t run even the latest Office (which is an improvement, over OfficeXP, BTW) blazing fast? But if you string together a macro of every action in every Office program… you have… a fucking worthless benchmark!
2nd, There have already been plenty of comparisons of XP to Vista in 3D games and even 3D apps, far more relevant to any of us following IT for VFX… They show a slight difference, often going both ways but with a slight edge to XP.
3rd, There is always going to be somebody afraid of the next thing (Gartner / CIO Today), these same people said the same things about XP (and they were right, **initially** and Win2k–where they couldn’t have been more wrong, even when it first came out it was an order of magnitude better than NT4).
–Newsflash: new OSs will have bugs in addition to the improvements… but eventually the bugs get worked out, then you just have improvements. The security improvements made XP a must-have (eventually), those plus virtualization plus other improvements will eventually make Vista must have too, hopefully around SP1. We’ll see.
But the fact that we know people who are now successfully using Vista64 for Lightwave far outweighs this ‘Devil Mountain’ BS.