Business Winstone 2004 also has a multitasking mode: here, different scenarios are simulated in which applications are active in both the foreground and the background.
In the first scenario, files are copied in the background, while in the foreground Outlook and the Internet Explorer process certain tasks. In the second scenario, a script kicks off processes with Word and Excel in the foreground while WinZip files are compressed in the background. In the third section, an antivirus test with Norton AntiVirus is run in the background, while in the foreground all the components of Microsoft's Office suite are busy with tasks.
In the multitasking test things are clearly better for Intel, where its HyperThreading (HT) technology comes into play. Altogether, the Intel processors complete the tests up to 9 per cent faster than their AMD counterparts. In two of three tests the Pentium 4 chips are in front; the AMD chips are only faster in scenario 2 (Word, Excel and WinZip).
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