Microsoft's communications are comparing apples and pears to try and sell more and more Windows 11. What could be more ridiculous?
Just a few days ago, Microsoft caught everyone off guard by announcing several techniques for taking advantage of an extra year of support for Windows 10. Why "caught everyone unawares"? Quite simply because for years Microsoft has been urging Windows 10 users to migrate as quickly as possible to its new operating system, and any means seem to be good enough to encourage them to abandon the "old guard". Microsoft has tried intrusive advertising, preloading the new OS, limits on security... and now it's trying to win them over with the performance of Windows 11.
Yes, as you may have guessed, if Microsoft has explained how to take advantage of one more year of Windows 10 support, it's not for the faint of heart. Of course, the Redmond firm hasn't given up on the idea of switching all its little world over to Windows 11, and this support is above all a way of pushing users towards its Cloud services. At the same time, Microsoft continues to insist that its new system is far better than the old one, that Windows 11 is superior to Windows 10 in every way... at the risk of talking nonsense!
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In an article detailing the protection offered by Windows 11, Microsoft lists the advantages of its latest system, and while many of the arguments hit the nail on the head, there's one that's sure to raise a few eyebrows: " Windows 11 PCs are up to 2.3x faster than Windows 10 PCs ". Of course, you could argue that Microsoft is being a little cautious with its "up to" claim. That's true, except that behind this assertion - which is already fairly difficult to confirm - Microsoft tries to back up its own claim with a footnote. There, it explains that it " relies on multi-core measurements from Geekbench 6 ", a somewhat limited piece of software for assessing a PC's overall performance, but the bottom is reached with the link that follows.
On this link, Microsoft intends to " detail the way in which performance is tested ", and it's scarcely believable. The American firm unashamedly explains that it pitted " a selection of Windows 10 PCs equipped with 6th, 8th and 10th generation Intel Core processors against Windows 11 PCs equipped with 12th and 13th generation Intel Core processors ". This is followed by a list of the machines used in its tests, and it's clear that laptops powered by, say, a Core i5-6200U processor may have been pitted against another laptop this time equipped with a Core i7-1335U. It's a good thing that processors five or six years apart offer different performance! It's a good thing that the computer industry has continued to improve the RAM, graphics cards and SSDs in our PCs, and that a machine bought in 2025 has arguments to make over a PC marketed in 2015. No, really, this is hardly believable communication from one of the giants of the industry.
