Taskkill slow in windows 7, fine in XP

The following command kills a task immediately in XP, but not in Windows 7, the task lingers for ~100 seconds.
taskkill /f /t /pid 123
The only account on the machine is an Administrator account.  I've tried cmd 'run as admin' and powershell, without any luck.
The task which is being killed is from a third party and uses quite a few TCP and UDP sockets.  During the time when the task is lingering netstat lists these sockets.
Why would XP terminate this process immediately and Windows 7 not?   Are there services or policies which could cause this behavior?
Thank you.
-Tom

I have not tested on any other processes, thank you.
The process I need to terminate is from a third-party.  I am very certain that there is a blocking call to a socket within the third-party's application.
I would like to identify the root cause, as this mechanism has worked flawlessly under XP for years, and is a hard failure in Windows 7.  If a root cause cannot be identified,  could you suggest a workaround?
Thanks.
Well, I think you can use Process Monitor to monitor its activity of kill Process. Maybe we could find the reason of this problem.
Process Monitor:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
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