What?!? Another Service Pack for a Microsoft product? I was under the heavy impression that Steve Ballmer’s minions didn’t make mistakes, or else they are forced into rubbing baby oil on his over-sized forehead. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it (writing code, not lubing Steve up).
Assuming you are running the best version of Windows, SP3 will appear in your automatic updates inbox today. Don’t expect anything too spectacular. It’s mostly just security fixes, but rumors are spreading that it offers a significant jump in performance.
Not according to my main man Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet blogger extraordinaire. I don’t actually know the guy, but damn, he looks cool. Adrian ran benchmarking tests for both every day tasks and gaming, and came up with this:
What’s true for XP SP3 is also true for Vista SP1. While Vista SP1 did fix certain performance issues, taking the system as a whole you don’t really see these gains unless you are looking for them.
Crap, no miracles. I guess I’ll be upgrading my hamster-powered processor, and my RAM that seems to squeak when it gets too hot.
Oh…that’s probably the hamster. Poor Cuddles.
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Cod In The Pocket // May 7, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Hamster-powered processor?
Can it run Crysis? haha…
The number of service packs for the 360 do surmount… Yet again, there have been problems with the 360…
2 Fleeka // May 7, 2008 at 2:15 pm
He probably has a quad-hamster processor that only runs when crysis is on.
3 lost989 // May 7, 2008 at 2:59 pm
the portable dog wheel is needed for crysis
any way microsoft always give themselves work to do, when first released the OS’s are usually buggy and flawed, they just give to the people to test
still wouldn’t go back to xp
4 Diortem // May 7, 2008 at 3:06 pm
guess Im upgrading tonight…. let you know how it goes.
5 Dan // May 8, 2008 at 2:09 am
I thought there wasn’t much which could be sorted with this. If it let you play “Vista-Exclusive” titles legally then… who am I kidding, I don’t give a shizz about Games for Windows.
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