Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 1 (x86)

[ee222]

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 1 (x86) - (English)

"... 10% speed increase under Windows XP SP3 ..."

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"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.

Devil Mountain ran its OfficeBench suite of performance benchmarks on a laptop equipped with Office 2007, Microsoft's latest application suite. The notebook -- the same unit used in the Vista/Vista SP1 tests earlier -- featured a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 1GB of memory. The results reported a 10% speed increase under XP SP3 when compared to SP2, the service pack released in 2004.

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source: pc world

[kgun]

Windows XP one of the best products from Microsoft ever IMO.

Great info.

[kgun]

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 1 (x86) - (English)

"... 10% speed increase under Windows XP SP3 ..."

If you subscribe the Microsoft MSDN, you can download it from the MSDN web site now.

A little too fast comment.

I have XP Home edition Norwegian version.

[Dubbya]

I'd wait for the public release and refrain from installing a beta patch, unless you're a beta tester who's keen on finding bugs for Microsoft.

RC1 is beta software.