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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 (www.tomshardware.com)
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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.

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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 6 days ago (11 children)

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.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 38 points 6 days ago

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.

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