Washington, October 05: Giant chipmaker Intel has recently conducted a study, concluding that Microsoft Windows 7 has improved in performance and stability compared to Windows XP SP3.
The study titled “The Value of PC Refresh with Microsoft Windows 7” takes into consideration Windows 7’s user adoption, performance, stability and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
More than 290 out of 300 Intel users said they “would recommend Microsoft Windows 7 to colleagues,” the study said.
The chipmaker said that it would switch to Windows 7 from Windows XP in the second quarter of 2009. This is while after a thorough analysis in 2008, Intel decided against switching to Windows 7’s predecessor, Windows Vista.
“Ninety percent of evaluation participants did not encounter issues preventing them from using Microsoft Windows 7 for their primary machine.”
The study found that Windows 7 performs 1.8 seconds faster than Windows XP in word processing tasks, 1.1 seconds in spreadsheet tasks and 1.3 seconds in presentation tasks.
“In most cases, users did not report problems running existing applications on Microsoft Windows 7. We anticipate that the majority of applications will not require any changes, and we identified that remediation options and tools are available to handle all foreseeable compatibility issues,” the study found.
Although a beta version of Windows 7 was acquired by Intel for the tests, Microsoft’s latest Operating System (OS) was far more stable that Windows XP “with fewer users experiencing blue screens.”
—–Agencies