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I was thinking exactly the same thing, but regarding the OS rather than machines. It's their best excuse for making everyone upgrade to Windows 10.

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I don't think Windows runs faster than Windows 7. It's only by forcing people to upgrade their machine that Microsoft will manage to force people to give up 7 for 10.

> I don't think Windows runs faster than Windows 7.

They're claiming the opposite:

>> With Windows 10 [...] we expect that some users will notice a decrease in system performance.

>> With Windows 8 and Windows 7 [...] we expect most users to notice a decrease in system performance.

>> Older versions of Windows have a larger performance impact because Windows 7 and Windows 8 have more user-kernel transitions because of legacy design decisions, such as all font rendering taking place in the kernel.

Windows 10 is faster than Windows 7:

>Older versions of Windows have a larger performance impact because Windows 7 and Windows 8 have more user-kernel transitions because of legacy design decisions, such as all font rendering taking place in the kernel.

From: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/01/09/...

Font rendering taking place in the kernel does indeed look quite like a legacy design decision.

It's also kinda ironic because improved performance was the reason behind that decision.

To be honest it might still have better performance if/when they add more mitigations for more security vulnerabilities. It seems like an anomaly right now since they're only addressing Meltdown/Spectre, but the core issues (no pun intended) are fundamentally there.

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