The Tech Report has posted a Windows performance comparison

LET'S FACE IT, WINDOWS XP, MICROSOFT'S LATEST operating system, comes with a lot of baggage. There's the much talked about product activation that counts only Gates and Ballmer as its fans. There's the host of new features and services bundled with XP that some cry is an abuse of Microsoft's monopoly power. Then there's that fruity new GUI that looks like it's retaining water, the one that Dr. Evil refers to as puffypaint.dll.

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