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For all the ESG virtue signaling that Microsoft does, you’d think they’d be concerned about the climate impact of this and why their applications are so inefficient.
I genuinely don't know if it was a bug or intentional behavior like TFA, but on the last win10 machine I used Edge would leave several of its background browser engine processes running indefinitely after the application was closed. Seems like they're just happy to let their users make unwitting sacrifices for their convenience of their devs.
https://superuser.com/questions/269385/why-does-google-chrom...
Now I never understood why the chrome.exe's would hang out when I didn't install any "background apps" - anyway I suspect a similar setting in Edge is buried in there somewhere.
Management: Tweak prefetch and call it a new feature.
Dev1: Superfetch!
Dev2: We already did that.
Dev1: Superfetch for Office!
Management: Yes.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-right-gentlemen
https://windowsground.com/what-is-superfetch-windows-10-shou...
I still can't believe how slow MS Word is to load a .docx document of about 150 pages of text, you can watch the page count in the status bar grow over a period of 10 seconds or more as it loads/paginates it. On the plus side, it's nostalgic and reminds me of the old MS Word 6 on Windows 95 (or Windows 3.1?) so that's nice.l
Fucken genius. Fix the problem? No way, Jose; We’ll move the problem somewhere else. I would like to know how we got to a place where any application taking more than 0.5 seconds to start is acceptable in any way . I have text editors which have visible input lag, even to my untrained eye. How in the HELL does that even happen? All of you hustlers out there making story cards and calculating velocity: stop doing this…
Office should be modular with a lean core and extensions for those who need them.
Why on startup? Windows startup is already so painfully slow, especially compared to Apple silicon machines, and adding Office to it would only compound this problem. I think this problem can be avoided, while also still helping pre-load Office, if Windows just detects when resource utilization is low and loads Office in the background then.
I disagree, my Windows machine loads into the OS quicker from login than my Mac.
For me login screen pops up maybe a few seconds from the bios, then everything is fully loaded after I enter my password.
Hmm, wonder if this could trigger another antitrust lawsuit?
I've not had the greatest relationship with Apple software lately, however seeing every "great idea" that comes out of the Microsoft development team is quite possibly the only marketing Apple needs going forward.
I wonder if it even matters though. Corporations are always going to use it, and the cheapest laptops will always come with it.
Windows 7 was so good because it was Vista without (much of) the bullshit.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's an old quote about "why would I pay to have the code written more efficiently when processors are constantly getting faster and harddrives are constantly getting bigger?" that always comes to mind about MS software. I don't know the validity of that quote to be any more accurate than the 640k memory one, but it always just had the feel of authenticity by everything you see as circumstantial evidence
The underlying issue is MS software is running on customer machines so it’s not part of their bottom line. They have little incentive to care as long as it’s not so slow their monopoly breaks.