Testers Claim Windows XP SP3 is Faster

Shortly after release of the beta version of Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft few days back released the RC 1 (Release candidate) of Windows XP SP3. This update initially will be available only to the private Microsoft testers.

From the initial reports, testers says that they see 10% speed improvement under same configuration compared to Windows XP running with SP2.

One of the earlier testers, Exo.blog tested this with OfficeBench and here are the results.

From this figure, it is obvious that Windows XP SP3 has done something major to overhaul the speed of applications. OfficeBench runs at 10 seconds less than in same configuration with SP2.

Windows XP SP3 being a bug fix/correction release, surprises these testers with noticeable speed improvement.

Some of the testers claim that Windows XP SP3 has improved support for multi-core systems and that is the result of this amazing speed improvement. Microsoft is yet to comment on this update.