This is the good news to Windows XP’s users, as the coming Service Pack 3 sees a 10% speed boost on its Windows XP system over the previous Service Pack 2. Well, the Vista SP1 doesn’t seem to have any performance boost though, as reported by downloadsquad. We guess this will be another reason for not switching over from XP to Vista in the near future.

You may not be able to download Windows XP Service Pack 3 yet without resorting to risky registry hacks, but software developers at Devil Mountain Software took a beta of the upcoming service pack for a spin, and they like what they saw.

In a nutshell, Devil Mountain reports that they saw a 10 percent performance boost over Windows XP SP2. Microsoft has said SP3’s primary purpose is to provide enhanced security and bug fixes. So the speed boost is a bit of an unexpected cherry on top.

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