Thursday, November 12th 2015
Microsoft Gives Windows 10 a Major Performance Boost
Microsoft released its first major update to Windows 10, with its centerpiece being a performance boost specific to the OS. Redmond claims that with this update, Windows 10 will be up to 30 percent quicker to start-up than Windows 7, and will have higher "performance in everyday tasks." The company also updated Cortana, its voice-assistant, to take inputs from your device's pen. Now you can simply scribble something in Cortanta's notebook, and it will recognize the information, such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, physical/postal addresses; event and movie bookings; etc. Windows 10 is available for free to current users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
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122 Comments on Microsoft Gives Windows 10 a Major Performance Boost
Edit: My bad.. 10586.3 is the new update version, which has been available to "Insiders" for a while now it seems. lol.
Still no fix for USB HID Joysticks keeping the computer/monitor from sleeping:banghead:Same
If not, then keep working Microsloft, hehehehe :D :) :D
But seriously, I thought 10 was already pretty fast from day 1, so if this boost is real, I'm all for it !
But I really appreciate that they introduced new memory and compression optimizations. Edge works much better now, new icons and Cortana are great too. Context menus are back to normal and other UI and under-the-hood tweaks make a difference.
The only crappy thing is .. drivers. Realtek Audio, Intel graphics and Nvidia are constantly optimizing for W10 which is great but what about other drivers? Still no solid Intel USB 3 drivers, Broadcom wlan drivers are still ancient, and what about AMD graphics support for older apu/gpu for W10? Vendors/Manufacturers/Microsoft are too reluctant about that.
I only reboot my gaming pc once a month at best, and my file server stays on all the time.
Not going take their word for it and see if others have any luck, think i be just better of waiting until later next year to see
Who would have done that....
Sounds a lot like the Windows 10 hype...
I'm sorry, but 30% faster boots months after launch seems to do more to confirm my suspicions than to alleviate them. MS pushed Windows 10 out the door, when a couple more months of development would have done it well. Those who immediately counter that point with "but the development costs" really need to first address the fact that Windows 10 is being given away to people with valid copies of 7 and 8/8.1. Once you can square all of that, I'll admit that my point has no merit.
On the positive side, it looks like MS is actually putting some effort into improving 10 continuously. That's definitely a good thing.
If the cold boot and energy saving bugs turn out to be related, not to my overclocked mobo, but to Win 10 THEY GONNA HEAR ME IN REDMONT!!