We recommend! Windows XP Service Pack 3 is currently scheduled for release sometime early next year. The company is already beta testing it with thousands of users at the moment. Devil Mountain Software, which earlier in the week claimed Windows Vista SP1 was no faster than the original, repeated some of the same tests on the release candidate of Windows XP SP3, the service pack recently issued to about 15,000 testers.
“We were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP SP3 delivers a measurable performance boost to this aging desktop OS,” said Craig Barth, Devil Mountain’s chief technology officer, in a post to a company blog Friday.
“Since SP3 was supposed to be mostly a bug-fix/patch consolidation release, the unexpected speed boost comes as a nice bonus. 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,†he added.
The company’s test include how Office 2007 runs. The specification of the laptop where they tested its performance has a 1 GB RAM and a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
Source: COMPUTERWORLD
This is good news for XP users, lets see when SP3 comes for download.