Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even worse

Re:Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even ... by Icathian on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @11:40AM (#28853587)

Microsoft has plenty of problems, but I don't think anyone can seriously suggest they are bad at building things to last. They shoulder backwards compatibility to a degree that almost no other company would even consider.

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Re:Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even ... by MR4D on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:28PM (#28854962)

Sorry if I wasn't clear - MSFT is absolutely phenomenal at backwards compatibility, and mad props to them for it.

My comment about "building things cleanly" is more about making a clean break from the past. It's not in their DNA, and since Windows 11 is doing that, I expect they'll hit some bumps in the road.

As for being a "one-off" issue was whether the bugs resulting from the clean break process are just a few, or if there is a whole host of issues that are about to crop up due to the big changes that have been made.

Windows 11 is technically simpler than 10[0], (not sure what the LOC counts are like though), but when changing/removing a bunch of things, I expect they will have issues. It's hard to do when your history is adding things for new features and keeping old code for compatibility - different process & different thinking.

[0] - I'm ignoring WSL here as a whole because I'm not familiar with the architecture yet.

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Re:Windows 11’s first update makes AMD CPU performance even ... by Icathian on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:58PM (#28855340)

Ah, that makes sense. Yeah, clean breaks like this are definitely new ground for them and you're right that growing pains wouldn't be shocking to see.

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