Windows XP needs additional resources
The XP transition is going to be a painful one. In fact, the double-whammy of OS and application code bloat could prove to be one of those unplanned “budget busters” that diverts funds away from critical projects and constricts IT spending months into the future. And since the performance loss we observed could not be linked to any specific configuration or tuning error (we used identical hardware and, whenever possible, the same device driver revisions), we must conclude that the phenomena are intrinsic to the OS and that the only viable solution is to upgrade the hardware.
If there’s a moral to the story it’s this: No matter how much vendors try to disguise their real-world system requirements, you never get “something for nothing.” In this case, the price of business productivity “bliss” is an increased appetite for CPU cycles. Veteran IT professionals should already know this (again, it’s an old story), so shame on anyone caught off-guard by a vendor’s misleading and/or unrealistic “system requirements.”
Bottom Line: If you plan to upgrade to Windows XP/Office XP, and if you’ve already qualified new PC platforms based on your experience with Windows 2000/Office 2000, you’ll need to revise your minimum system performance levels upwards by 25-30%. That should give you enough headroom to compensate for the more “portly” XP combination.
anandtech.com
Our tests of the multitasking capabilities of Windows XP and Windows 2000 demonstrated that under the same heavy load on identical hardware, Windows 2000 significantly outperformed Windows XP. In the most extreme scenario, our Windows XP system took nearly twice as long to complete a workload as did the Windows 2000 client. Our testing also suggests that companies determined to deploy Windows XP should consider ordering desktop systems with dual CPUs to get the most out of the new OS.
infoworld.com
Better upgrade well since there are more Windows ahead
XP dawns; More Windows ahead
By Peter Galli
eWEEK
October 29, 2001
For Microsoft Corp., XP isn't enough. The Redmond, Wash., company, which held a glitzy affair here last week to launch its newest operating system, Windows XP, already has development teams working on the two subsequent Windows releases, code-named Longhorn and Blackcomb.
As a result, users will face the prospect of two more upgrades over the next four years, a circumstance for which Microsoft is already facing backlash.
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