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ezst036 Admin said: People across social media continue to dunk on Scott's replies, asking why Microsoft needed to wait until Windows 11 was in an intolerable state to think of this solution. That's entirely fair, too, considering just how long users have been complaining about the general reliability of the OS. This. The timing is absolutely the problem. Microsoft, now, after all the years of ignoring and ignoring and ignoring its customers, is now finally doing things. The perception is that "the things" are simply too small in comparison to the massive amount of years where Microsoft has simply told all of us to go pound sand. With a smile on everybody's face, of course. " Look. I gave you a Cheez It. One single Cheez It. You've been asking for years. " " Wait why are you unhappy? " Reply
Kindaian Just add a tape cassette sound when loading an app, and when the app fails to load show a load tape error 🙂 Problem solved. And flicker the sides of the screen with colors very rapidly to create the visual effect of bars moving. Reply
Toom316 I don't mind them doing this but it's an extremely small improvement overall. I mean the only time you will notice this boost is when nothing is going on already on your pc. If you have any other app open or a browser your your CPU is already boosted up out of its sleep / idle state. So this improvement is a very edge case at best. Cause most of the time when I used windows and opened the task bar I was already doing other stuff that's boosted the CPU anyways. So what bugs me is they sort of claim this as a big win when it's just a tiny small edge case and your not even going to notice it most of the time. Reply
Roland Of Gilead reminding users that it's simply catching up to industry practice. As opposed to being an industry leader, which MS claim to be! This is much ado about nothing. As above, this will hardly yield any significant change in OS snappiness. It's not like it's an OC of a CPU, with specific parameters. Reply
das_stig OK too little too late, but at least Microsuck are doing something but it better be 100% stable and doesn't end up crashing systems tuned by the users to get the most out of their hardware. Said it many times, Windows 11 is a dead path, Microsoft need to go back to a tiny 64-Bit Core OS hypervisor, everything is then accessed as needed by a resource manager that only looks after, memory, storage, gpu, networks etc etc, handles who and what gets accessed or shared between other resource managers, no direct linking between resources for security. Legacy compatibility is scrapped, if its not native, it gets emulated, isolated and no data sharing, force developers to update to native. Reply
ezst036 Roland Of Gilead said: As opposed to being an industry leader, which MS claim to be Microsoft do claim this. The disconnect has to be a factor. Reply
King_V Alright, they want to improve performance? I have the solution. Go back to Windows 10. Say its iteration from a few years back, but with all the security updates. Stop adding gimmicks/features people don't want. I didn't ask for the weather on the login screen. I didn't ask for opening Edge to tell me about a lock-screen photo just because I wanted to say I liked it. And I certainly didn't ask for Copilot as part of the OS. Microsoft: do you remember when Windows 10 could actually run reasonably well on a spinning hard drive? Because I do. Reply
itsmejak78 das_stig said: OK too little too late, but at least Microsuck are doing something but it better be 100% stable and doesn't end up crashing systems tuned by the users to get the most out of their hardware. Said it many times, Windows 11 is a dead path, Microsoft need to go back to a tiny 64-Bit Core OS hypervisor, everything is then accessed as needed by a resource manager that only looks after, memory, storage, gpu, networks etc etc, handles who and what gets accessed or shared between other resource managers, no direct linking between resources for security. Legacy compatibility is scrapped, if its not native, it gets emulated, isolated and no data sharing, force developers to update to native. Legacy compatibility is one of the ONLY good things about Windows Scrapping it would be literally the stupidest move they could make Reply
itsmejak78 King_V said: Alright, they want to improve performance? I have the solution. Go back to Windows 10. Say its iteration from a few years back, but with all the security updates. Stop adding gimmicks/features people don't want. I didn't ask for the weather on the login screen. I didn't ask for opening Edge to tell me about a lock-screen photo just because I wanted to say I liked it. And I certainly didn't ask for Copilot as part of the OS. Microsoft: do you remember when Windows 10 could actually run reasonably well on a spinning hard drive? Because I do. No, I don't remember when Windows 10 ran fine on spinning rust, because it ran like shit on HDDs even in 2015 Reply
King_V That was your experience. My experience was pretty good. It wasn't trying to do a million things at a time that required disk access back then. Reply
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