Windows XP Service Pack 3 is getting ready to release and has proven to give a hefty boost in terms of performance.
Windows XP Service Pack 3 is highly anticipated and according to testers from the Devil Mountain Software group, gives a 10% performance boost compared to computers running on Windows XP Service Pack 2. This is using the exact same computer configuration as well.
Windows XP Service Pack 3 is twice as fast as Windows Vista in the OfficeBench benchmark program.
Craig Barth of Devil Mountain stated that “Since SP3 was suppoed to be mostly a bug-fix/patch consolidation release, the unexpected speed boost comes as a ncie bonus. In fact, XP SP3 is shaping up to be a must-have update for the majority fo users who are still running Redmond’s not-so-latest and greatest desktop OS.”
15,000 testers have been given Windows XP SP3 Release Candiate. It will feature over 1,000 hot fixes and patches which have been put out over the past three years and at least four new features.
Windows XP users have been waiting for this one for quite some time and with the news that it gives a performance boost, the anticipation is higher than ever.