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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. Good Thing by killeena · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow, good things the New York Times is there to tell us what is wrong with it. After all, I am sure they have direct access to the source code.

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  2. Ahum, Windows XP isn't at all slow! by Ulrich+Hobelmann · · Score: 1, Redundant

    And I'm a Mac user since 2003 (and I also used several free Unices before that), so I can compare.

    Windows isn't slow at all. Maybe it accumulates garbage over time and *becomes* slow, but that's another story...

  3. Re:Windows is slow? by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Redundant

    +5 Informative? This is OFF-TOPIC. The article is not about MS Windows being a slow OS, it is about the time it takes MS to release the next version of the operating system.

    The moderation system is broken, it relies on people who don't bother to read the text themselves.

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  4. Re:Transitions.... by kimvette · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No mod points today. :(
    This AC should be modded informative.

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