In performance tests, Windows XP Service Pack 3 has out performed Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

A benchmarking exercise conducted by Florida-based software development company Devil Mountain Software showed that any improvements that Vista offered were more than outclassed by the venerable XP.

The report shows that Vista, both with and without SP1, was slower than XP with SP3. It took more than 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to XP’s 35 seconds.

SP1 made little difference to Vista where as the beta SP3 back for XP made it 10 per cent faster.

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