While looking for the group policy with vista, I stumbled across this blog of Nick White, the Product manager of Windows Vista. He talks about how and when to benchmark an OS particularly Windows Vista. I read about 3 paragraphs when I decided “I absolutely want to hear what people commented on this!” So I scrolled down to the end of the blog where people add comments…. Purely classic. Enjoy.
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...rformance.aspx
One of my favorite posts:
“The right time to assess Vista's performance would have been a year and a half ago before this atrocity hit the market. I set up networks for a living so CRAZY ME, I actually really tested an apples to apples performance comparison - identical machines two P4 3GHz and 2 Core 2 2.6GHz - each with identical hard drives, identical network cards, identical memory. I disabled all bells and whistles on each - Antivirus, firewall, etc etc - updated to the latest drivers.
Then I actually TESTED performance - file copies to a server (large files, small files, groups of files), copied files from a server, copied files between two hard drives, and to the same hard drive - performance could easily take up to 8 times longer on Vista - HOW THE HECK DID THAT GET OVERLOOKED? I still have a couple of machines for testing as they said - must be drivers - blah blah blah - performance is still less than 50% of XP. Why would anyone want to switch to vista. I wouldn't buy a new ferrari and then put a speed governor on it that reduces HP by half.
Vista is an abomination that cannot be fixed.
If I saw a house that was infested with mold, termites, lead paint and asbestos - logic dictates - wiping it out and starting from scratch would be the course of action. Vista is dead - throw it in the heap with Clippy, Windows ME and BOB. It's time to cart that horse to a glue factor and start on XP 2009. Vista was a spectacular failure and unless Ballmer can get that through his fat head - he could single handedly reverse the empire that Bill built.”
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