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Re:Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Year... by baddie_twoshoes on Saturday January 10, 2026 @12:11PM (#46567570)
Don't software products tend to get slower, not faster, with each release? I think Windows 7 vs Vista was the only time I remember things getting better.

IOS 26 is also terrible (on battery especially). New OS releases always have a ton of new services in them that bog them down.

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Re:Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Year... by doodlesdev on Saturday January 10, 2026 @12:21PM (#46567700)
They do, but that's really not necessary. In the linked video you can see Windows 8.1 is pretty well optimized compared to the other Windows versions.

A lot of this slowdown is just developers getting complacent and getting used to the new hardware capabilities. Windows has a lot of low hanging optimization fruit laying around. It's just Microsoft doesn't really care about that: it doesn't fit the business model at all.

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