Anyone Else Noticed The Newer Windows Versions are SLOWER?

[NoelC]

 

Sure, and you rarely initiate a defrag, possibly of a huge disk, when you are at 10% battery left on a laptop or when there is a lightning storm in the area, or when you are just about to leave to board a flight and you NEED to disconnect/switch off, etc. etc.

 

Since Vista systems have been defragging themselves when they choose to do so, on a schedule.

 

-Noel

[DosProbie]

Have not noticed any speed drops nor done any extensive speed testing as of yet with the new builds but have noticed my new dual band 5 Ghz cable router has the need to be reset more or maybe its just Comcast-Xfinity who knows.

~DP

[jaclaz]

This is a well-known conjecture known as Wirth's law.

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

 

I've noticed this pattern time and time again. Opening a Microsoft Word document on Office 2003 on my old 2006 Pentium D takes no more than 3 seconds on a cold start. At school, we have Office 2013 running on 3.4 GHz Core i7 computers, and I see that splash screen with the flowing dots for at least 6 seconds before the document opens. As hardware gets more powerful, the programmers can get away with higher-level languages and layers upon layers of object-oriented abstraction. This is pretty much what the .NET framework is. A slow, bloated, object-oriented abstraction layer so that programmers can write code faster and more sloppily, and be tied to Microsoft platforms. And since Vista, the Windows OS has come to depend on the .NET framework.

 

An interesting experiment:

http://hallicino.hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_Who_Wins

And you have to take into account how on "warm start" Office (all vesions of it) may use a pre-loader which may affect significantly the startup time.

 

Some old data, JFYI:

http://www.oooninja.com/2008/07/benchmarking-microsoft-word-95-2007.html

 

And here is a graph showing how much Office utilities grew and (in my perverted mind ) smaller, leaner packages are faster :

http://www.oooninja.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-microsoft-office-moores.html

 

More on the "smaller is faster":

http://reboot.pro/topic/8898-microsoft-office-viewers-2003/

 

jaclaz