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[AndySaurus]

Well, I've always wondered which OS was best on the average computer. Ever since 2001, XP ruled over most OS's with it's lightweight core.
Tests has been performed on a computer with: Intel dual-core E5200 CPU, 2GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD4550 graphics card and 500gb harddrive.

First Comparison: BOOT TIME
Results:
XP: 3.5 / 5
Vista: 3 / 5
Windows 7: 4.5 / 5

Second Comparison: Gaming

XP has been really compatible with mostly all games. Major games that are released are also written for XP
result:
Scores

XP: 4 / 5
Vista: 3 / 5
Windows 7: 4 / 5

Looks like windows 7 wins

[Iniyila]

i think in boot time you can mention exactly the time not the score and i compared the boot time on my notebook and xp was faster.

but about gaming i think there is no way to compare xp and 7 (vista is not important ). because windows xp only supports directx 9c (directx 10 ntc release has many bugs which makes it impossible to use) but windows seven has dx11 which has awesome features.

if we only look at dx9 games windows xp performance is much better as you see for minimum system requirement they announce two series one for windows xp with much less ram and cpu and one for windows seven with higher ram and cpu.

[mahesh2k]

I don't think there is any comparison between OS which are developed with certain time frame. You'll find that keeping some minor glitch aside there is no comparison between windows vista, XP and 7 in their own way. Windows 7 and Vista are certainly improvement over XP which we can't deny. Windows 7 has low resource requirement which makes it better than vista and likewise there are plenty of points where each one scores up or down.

[Eza]

Another opinion is that it is possible to compare Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Advantages of Windows 7 are probably a higher speed and a very shiny look of the screen.

And Windows 7 is designed for an SSD.

Windows 7 has trim built in. This means the speed of the SSD keeps high over time.

Edited by Eza, 21 November 2010 - 01:17 PM.

[juice]

I currently use Window$ 7 Ultimate 64 bit and well, it's not that great. XP is the greatest operating system from Microsoft to date, in my opinion. Even though it's 10 years old it still holds it's weight in the software world. Yes, Window$ 7 is great and all but I don't think we'll see an OS similar to XP in a long time to come.

[KainthCorporation]

We Should Wait For Windows 8 Releasing Soon...

[eInfiniti]

I have used all three operating systems. XP is the oldest. It works well and doesn't use a lot of resources. Vista is newer, but it takes a lot of resources and is slow. It seems a lot of people know its shortcomings. Win 7 is the newest. It doesn't require a lot of resources like XP. It must have some new features though I haven't noticed or realized. It seems to be a good next generation product to replace XP. Then, I don't know why but the 2003 version of Microsoft Office keeps having problems on my new Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad. I use Word and Excel often. They both stop working fairly often. I don't know it is the laptop or the operating system. The same version of Office works well on XP.

[rpgsearcherz]

eInfiniti, on 08 October 2011 - 09:32 PM, said:

I have used all three operating systems. XP is the oldest. It works well and doesn't use a lot of resources. Vista is newer, but it takes a lot of resources and is slow. It seems a lot of people know its shortcomings. Win 7 is the newest. It doesn't require a lot of resources like XP. It must have some new features though I haven't noticed or realized. It seems to be a good next generation product to replace XP. Then, I don't know why but the 2003 version of Microsoft Office keeps having problems on my new Lenovo/IBM Thinkpad. I use Word and Excel often. They both stop working fairly often. I don't know it is the laptop or the operating system. The same version of Office works well on XP.

Odd that you should bring up the Office/Excel issues. Not sure if it's related but I experience the same thing with OpenOffice on Windows 7.

Overall I like Windows 7 more than the other two (Vista was just horrible), but some things like GameSpy still act up quite a bit with it. But other than that, it's faster, boots faster, looks better and just feels better overall.