Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain
Microsoft’s sketchy Win 10 vs Win 11 performance claims pit a 9-year-old PC against a modern machine to claim 2.3X gain
Odd that no AMD PCs were included in the performance comparison.
Ever since Microsoft announced that it would end support for Windows 10 in October, the company has been trying hard to convince users to make the switch to Windows 11. First, it warned that unsupported Windows 10 PCs will no longer receive security updates, making them easy targets for hackers. Later, it advised users to trade in their old computers and buy a new one that comes preloaded with all the Windows 11 goodies.
Now, once again, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Yusuf Mehdi, has published a fresh blog highlighting all the benefits and advantages of Windows 11, including a statement claiming that Windows 11 PCs are up to 2.3 times faster than Windows 10 PCs. However, what they failed to make clear is that this claim is entirely based on a comparison of new versus old hardware, rather than the software itself.
I've never understood Microsoft's design and marketing strategy.
They appear to exist in some sort of mirror universe in which quality is a bad thing, so they mostly build OSes that are bloated, clunky garbage and do everything they can to fool/coerce/force people into using them. But then every once in a while it's like they accidentally let an actually decent OS slip through, and they immediately panic and start trying to kill it. Like they can't cope with having an OS that people actually want to use, and can't wait to get back to where they're comfortable - fooling/coercing/forcing them to use bloated, clunky garbage.
Microsoft is beginning to suffer from the long term effects of replacing upper level engineers with sales managers. Windows is in much the same place as VMware right now. A still useful product currently controlled by people who don’t understand it and who are solely focused on making the line go up.
It really began when the injunction preventing them from bundling services expired between Windows 7 & 8.
One thing Windows is absolutely amazing at, is backwards compatibility. A software from 20 years ago can still run seamlessly on a newer version. That's something to behold, and it definitely makes the system bloated. But then, on top of their shady practices, they add a lot of useless shit, which makes the bloat even worse.
Yeah they can do that because they basically never remove anything, and just keep piling more and more nonsense on top of it.
Also, cough WINE, cough Proton.
I've always heard this claim, but in reality I've had more luck running old software on linux with wine than on windows.
Windows has a lot of old bloat still around (even some win3.11 apps remain on win11), but that doesn't mean it's that good at backwards compatibility. Backwards compatibility also requires an effort, which Microsoft doesn't want to make.
Windows 10 is terrible, it’s bloated garbage as well. It’s just windows 11 is worse, and windows 8 was a complete mess.
they mostly build OSes that are bloated, clunky garbage
Windows 11 IoT LTSC is anything but bloated and clunky. Best OS I've used.
The whole point of LTSC is reduced bloat and increased stability for enterprise customers -- doesn't the existence of a bloat-free version tell you all you need to know? They don't seem to have an issue selling enterprise software, but the users on the home versions definitely suffer from bloat and choices they never asked for.
I think they struggle with the backward compatibility, that's what makes it clunky. I also think they love marketing, that's what makes it bloated
That’s beyond sketchy. That’s like comparing regular unleaded to premium by fueling a Honda civic with regular and a Lamborghini with premium.
That’s beyond sketchy.
That's on brand with Microsoft though. They were always sketchy. Did we all forget how Gates started Microsoft?
Well, I have a system that used to be able to run Windows 11. Now it can't anymore for some fucked up reason. Now it runs Fedora KDE. Fuck you Microsoft.
True. Win11 is 2nd to trump (it's a close call) in motivating users to switch to linux
short story: they fail to sell W11, people don't seem to want it
It's almost like it's a crap OS that even requires a friggin' DRM chip to be enabled, with AI shit foisted on users.
My dad misunderstood when I said we were forced to replace our computers with win11 at work as "I updated my.computer to win11", so he followed suit, and his peripherals don't work right, his graphics drivers wouldn't play nice, etc. Idiotic problems that don't exist with 10.
Well, they say "new hardware" .... ask yourself .... did I buy new peripherals ?? /S
They prob used the shittiest version of win10, if they used ltsc iot it would have smashed 11 into the ground.
Ah yes the shittiest version. Aka the "normal" version almost everyone gets.
the shittiest version of win10
thanks for making me laugh this hard !!
I mean, it's not false. They used the "most recent" hardware that win11 won't install on, vs the "most recent" hardware that win11 will go on. In their mind, that's a fair test. They just won't consider that someone might put win10 on something modern.
Soon Microsoft themselves will add backdoors to win 10 to force you to switch
My work pc was updated. It's far slower now.
Ig microsoft considers my perfectly fine 10th gen i7 to be a windows 10 cpu