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Why Windows is Slow

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-blame-lazy-gerbils dept.

hype7 writes "The New York Times is running an article on why they think Windows is so slow. They boil it down to one key factor - legacy support - and they hold up Apple as an example of a company willing to make hard decisions around legacy support in order to provide a better product. From the article: 'Windows is now so big and onerous because of the size of its code base, the size of its ecosystem and its insistence on compatibility with the legacy hardware and software, that it just slows everything down ... That's why a company like Apple has such an easier time of innovation.'"

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  1. This isn't why Windows is slow... by daitengu · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Legacy code for what? Hardware support? I'm pretty sure I can enable ISA and old hardware support in Linux and see no slowdown at all. In fact, I'm also quite certain that I could enable every single option in my Linux Kernel, and it still wouldn't run half as slow as Windows did on the very same machine.

    Let the flames begin.

  2. Next on /. by 3.14159265 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why there are so many dupes in /.

  3. Re:Windows is slow? by G)-(ostly · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your Debian system performing a different function from your Windows system runs differently?

    Nooooo. I'd have never guessed.

    --
    From now on, I buy only Intel.
  4. Re:I'm the only GNU/Linux user in the office by rwven · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Windows is not plagued by viruses. Windows is plagued by idiotic users who install said viruses or open up the door and let the viruses come in. If any other OS was as popular they would have just as many viruses and they would have just as much trouble with them because the people using them are still too dumb to keep them up to date and safe from threats.

    About a year after I "got into" computers i got a virus. I was still in that dumb stage of not knowing how to keep from doing so. Having learned from that mistake, i have not since had any. I didn't even get the blaster when everyone else was getting it. It's called windows update people. It's there for a reason...and that fix was out for 6 months at the time of the "attack."

    It sounds to me like you're the tech who everyone calls because they present themself as having a clue, charges way too much for service, but then blames every stinking problem on the OS, saying "you have a virus, you should use linux." That group of "tech's" is the most destructive to the image of IT imho...

  5. Re:Windows is slow? by wigglebum420 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Learn to set up a PC... then you won't have those problems... I have built 2200 + XP systems for the city government users where I work. I have nobody that complains of slow systems (many are Mac users at home) maybe I just know what I'm doing.

    To say it is rare to see an XP system running quickly, you're just silly.