Microsoft has a problem not of its own making: The time it takes to bring a system back up to date after a few months of slumber.
Not a day goes by without either a Microsoft representative or a fan insisting that Windows 11 is a lot snappier now than it used to be.
Microsoft recently said that it is working to shrink Windows' footprint to the point where 8 GB would be enough to run things acceptably.
We've written before about the curse of updates, but this machine was running Windows 11 and had been up to date less than a year ago.
In the decades since Microsoft first inflicted progress bars on Windows users, it has singularly failed to make them accurately reflect the er, progress.
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Microsoft has a problem not of its own making: The time it takes to bring a system back up to date after a few months of slumber.
The company is keen to talk up how efficient it plans to make Windows. Not a day goes by without either a Microsoft representative or a fan insisting that Windows 11 is a lot snappier now than it used to be. (Usually they skirt the unfortunate truth that the Windows of yesteryear generally flies on modern hardware compared with the lumbering of today's software).
Microsoft recently said that it is working to shrink Windows' footprint to the point where 8 GB would be enough to run things acceptably. We can only hope that one shard of light piercing the gloom of today's memory shortages and rising prices is that developers might prioritize efficient RAM use alongside slinging more ads or adding features few users need.
This vulture's experience this week shows that there is another area that needs addressing, and that is the number of updates slung out by vendors, and not just Microsoft.
We've written before about the curse of updates, but this machine was running Windows 11 and had been up to date less than a year ago.
Along with the large array of updates for Windows components and the inevitable insistence that a new version of Microsoft's flagship operating system was needed, there were multiple firmware and driver updates and plenty of restarts. In the decades since Microsoft first inflicted progress bars on Windows users, it has singularly failed to make them accurately reflect the er, progress.
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