Principled Technologies, a North Carolina-based company that conducts technology assessments, recently piloted a study for Microsoft where the performance of Windows XP Service Pack 2 was compared to Windows Vista when performing common business operations. Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly), one item the group reported was that the Aero UI had very little effect on responsiveness in Windows Vista.
The three key findings of the 47-page report (PDF) are as follows:
- After several common business operations, Vista was more responsive after rebooting as compared to Windows XP
- Generally, Vista and XP were equally responsive on most test operations
- Aero had little to no negative effect on the responsiveness of Vista
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