Anandtech has updated their “XP Transition” article with Windows XP RC1

Now that Windows XP Release Candidate 1 is available and we’ve had a chance to kick the tires a bit, we’re ready to update the results for our “XP Transition” story. As no doubt many of you suspected, RC1 is indeed faster than Beta 2. However, the performance improvement, as measured by our business productivity-centric test scenarios (see original article for details), is not overwhelming and in no way invalidates our original conclusion: That IT organizations need to budget for additional client PC processing power in order to compensate for the increased demands of Windows XP/Office XP.

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