well its an interesting read, i see what you mean about him loving XP a little too much, but as i was reading him spout out about how XP was so much faster on todays hardware a thought occured to me,

lets imagine a fictional world, where windows 98 was 32/64 bit and all manufacturors released drivers for every OS ever made, wouldnt 98 seem faster than XP? for the simple reason that XP Vista and 7 simply have more stuff in them to take advantage of modern technologies, on todays systems windows 98 would run so quick it would blow your socks off, simply because it was designed at a tie when computers were much slower than now, so your pc would be able to handle it without even breaking a sweat, you can see this effect when you play old games on a new system, where a system at the time would have had to be "state of the art" todays computers have evolved to the point where even a modest system is better than the systems that were available then,

conclusion: this guys saying that Xp runs faster, but our pc's have moved beyond Xp's limits so can handle it with inpunity,

just my $0.02

Did you happen to see who that article is by? If not take a good look, says that the testing leaves a lot too be desired.

Doesn't say anything about the security of Vista/7 vs XP...which is unfortunate, because that's probably the most important stride made from XP to Vista/7...things like hardware-based data execution prevention that XP doesn't take advantage of...

stormy13 said:

Did you happen to see who that article is by? If not take a good look, says that the testing leaves a lot too be desired.

Wait, is that the guy that John hates?

~Lordbob