If you are a Windows Vista user sitting on the fence about whether to install SP1 when it comes out in a few weeks, or an XP user reluctant to upgrade because of concern over performance, you should have a clearer perspective after reading this 8-page article.
In the article, over 40 different applications and games are tested, to find out how performance is affected by installing SP1. Also tested was file copying with various file sizes and formats (this affects results significantly) and other integrated Windows operations.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
One thing to note, Vista waits until all disk write commands are executed before it closes the dialog for copying files. XP closes the dialog once all write commands have been issued, even if they aren't finished. Thats why Vista hangs at the end. Not sure if SP1 changes that, or if they've actually sped up the copying somehow.
In any case, it's faster than retail which is nice!
What a useless article for me!
I was attracted by 'XP user reluctant to upgrade because of concern over performance,'
That statement led me to believe that the benchmarks would show comparisons between XP Vista and Vista SP!. But thats not the case, theres is no information of performance with releation to current XP performance... Bah! :)
I can't believe they didn't show performance specs on World of Warcraft. I mean... isn't that the only game people play on PCs anymore?
UT3 sold like 2 copies.
... and not the newer CS3!?
Anyway, I just hope it solves alot of the small annoyences, like the confirmation-click etc...
Other than that, I havent had much problems with Vista yet. It's running fine on my new PC, and my programs all seem to work properly, so cant say I hate it.
Only thing I DO dislike ALOT, is that the OEM version that came with this new PC is a 32 bit version, while I really want/need a 64 bit version, so I can upgrade the RAM.
Not really sure why they even made that limitation for the 32 bit version.