I have a 128GB windows machine at work, its still sluggish as hell

Especially the start menu

Microsoft says a lot of things

They're going to cut the bloat a little to get people who are windows 10 holdouts to move....

Then they'll slowly put it back in ..

So does Linux 🤷 And that comes with a bunch of other advantages.

8gb of RAM? My phone has 8 gb and can play ZZZ while playing music and chatting on Discord. Windows can't even tell me the weather, Edge won't even open, the screen resolution changed sometimes (mid session) and there's Coslop in the damn text editor. RAM was never the issue, it's the whole OS.

Remember when windows XP could only make use of a maximum of 4GB of RAM?

I put it to you: What has actually improved in the OS for the end user since then?

Too little, too late

Again.. “Look at this performance improvement we really should’ve always had, also what tracking ID?”

They put everything into prefetch didnt they

They're gonna try their damndest to stop this Linux and MacOS exodus.

I hope they fail for a long time. I don't want windows to go away, less competition is bad, but I REALLY don't want people crawling back already before microslop has actually learned a damn thing.

More responsive ≠ more reliable

Who cares at this point. The ram consumption is one problem on a long list that is growing faster that MS could ever hope to fix them.

Copilot+ please make windows faster.

I use windows at work and every day they amaze me with a new silly bug. Today’s but was Excel whenever I refresh power query it’ll shift all cells 2 columns to the right.

This is code for we detect that you have 8 gigs and shut off all kinds of unnecessary shit we use to spy on you.

Remove all the bloat and it will work on 8KB RAM or less

That was quick, I feel like they just acknowledged the performance issues a few months ago. It's kind of shocking to see a release to fix some things so quickly. I know we all knew of this for years now, and I am sure they have been working on this longer than when they announced it, but I really didn't expect anything until next year honestly. If anything I figured it would have been part of the next version update since this is exactly the kind of changes you expect from those updates.