Originally Posted By: mlord
One of the reasons for Windows 10 not being as slow, it that MS only permits it to be installed on (or is that merely "shipped with"?) quite recent processors. So it's faster to begin with (newer CPUs), and those newer CPUs have some features that help reduce the overhead of the bug workarounds.

Huh? Windows 7 and Windows 10 system requirements are identical. And it's leading to the patches causing further blue screen scenarios, like this one.

I'm guessing your impression may have been from seeing news like this where Microsoft started trying to drop their legacy kernels by not supporting Windows 7 on newer x86 SoC style processors.