Microsoft keeps releasing new versions of Windows.
They say each version is better than the previous one.
Is there some truth to this ? Or is this mostly marketing bullshit to push people to spend money?
Microsoft keeps releasing new versions of Windows.
They say each version is better than the previous one.
Is there some truth to this ? Or is this mostly marketing bullshit to push people to spend money?
Once upon a time it was true that each new version of windows was more performant than the one before.
This hasn’t been literally true for quite awhile. Windows 11 doesn’t have any net performance benefit over windows 10, and neither was 10 a raw-performance improvement over 8.1.
There is some userland code changes in system provided apps like terminal, explorer, and the task manager, but these have tended to be more “better LLM hooks” and “why didn’t we do this sooner” fixed than actual performance bits.
On the plus side, it’s not really a money grab. MS gets more from Xbox and Office subs than windows licenses, which have been non-transferable all-OS licenses going back to the windows 8 era. The version switches are still really dumb, though, and EOLing windows 10 is just penny-pinching BS.