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Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 268 points 1 month ago (22 children)

Not sure why it would be unexpected? 8.1 was not a good OS from a UI perspective, but it was the last version before Microsoft went all in on making Windows a service and not a product you paid to use.

They still had the incentive to make the OS better and faster. I remember videos from Microsoft at the time showing how fast Windows 8 could get to the desktop compared to 7. They don't really even try to work on stuff like that anymore.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Windows 8 was where Microsoft went all-in on optimizing Windows to run on low-power tablets to compete with the iPad. It's mostly remembered for the terrible tablet-first full-screen "start menu", but also continued the work to trim away all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7 (where the motivation was to make it work on netbooks so they could finally stop shipping XP)

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

all the Vista bloat that had started with Windows 7

The fuck?? Vista predates Win7, that sentence makes no sense

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Windows 7 was based on Vista, and started the job of trimming away Vista's bloat, which 8 continued.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aha, well it's a very ambiguous phrasing that is used.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

Ambiguous, yes; very ambiguous, though, sounds like you're preemptively dodging any blame for misreading :P

[–] Robaque@feddit.it 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the work (to trim all the Vista bloat) that had started with Windows 7

Could be phrased better but it makes sense to me

[–] cardfire@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

You're getting downdooted, but I was stuck on rereading that nonsensical sentence, as well, and I'm glad it was clarified.

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