Jamie Le Souef

The aging, but ever popular OS, Windows XP, is to receive an unexpected gift if the form of a 10% speed boost.

Windows XP Service Pack 3 build 3244 is now twice as fast as Windows Vista in the OfficeBench benchmark program.

They used a Dell XPS M1710 laptop with 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB of RAM and nVidia GeForce Go 7900GS video. The machine runs Microsoft Office 2007.

“Since SP3 was supposed to be mostly a bug-fix/patch consolidation release, the unexpected speed boost comes as a nice bonus,” Craig Barth, Devil Mountain’s chief technology officer, said on his blog. “In fact, XP SP3 is shaping up to be a ‘must-have’ update for the majority of users who are still running Redmond’s not-so-latest and greatest desktop OS.”

Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate has been issued to about 15,000 testers, Microsoft said. The new Service Pack 3 for Microsoft’s previous operating system will feature more than 1,000 hot fixes and patches that have been issued in the past three years, as well as at least four new features, some of which will be ports of Vista tools.

This is a huge boost to XP as SP1 (Service Pack 1) for windows Vista has left everyone with a sour taste in their mouth and should see vista continue on as the prefered OS well into 2008 - 09, or until Microsoft can get there act to gether and release SP2 for vista with everything that was promised for Vista and Vista SP1.

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