Yes, I can see that. What really annoys me is the reinstalling. Recently I re-installed Windows 7 Professional on a friend's laptop after I replaced her HD with an SSD. She didn't want to restore from a backup because she was complaining that Windows had become (of course) slow and glitchy. So first you install the original OEM system. But to update to the present you have to go through literally about eight reboots because Windows is unable to update itself from the past to the present in one shot. It sees a bunch of updates initially, reboots. It sees new updates, reboots. It sees new updates again, reboots, and so on and so on. And then of course I have to do a driver hunt for all the installed hardware. Hadn't done a Windows reinstall for years and it was the same nightmare that takes hours of attention. With a Mac you put in the original operating system, and you update to the current operating system. Done. Is Windows 10 the same way as Windows 7?
The official way to push Windows 7 faster is to slipstream service packs into your current media. So if you had a Win7 sp1 iso, you could inject let say SP3, so that your ISO would now be a complete Win7SP3. Then you install it and install the remaining patches. For Windows 10, there is not really a need to slipstream, they release new ISOs frequently. You can use that and if you don't want to install individual small patches, you have cumulative updates that are a bunch of patches bundled together. The occasional user may not want to learn all this but when you have a bunch to update, it's the first thing you lookup!
They do a much better job and for the usual Joe, their system will be patched. A Windows re-install is not done often anyway.
I do agree that the updates take a long time but like I said, a good portion is related to Windows making a restore point and it does a lot of disk activities. Combine that to antivirus and it's a pain since most people have slow drives.
On windows 10, if you try to stick to Windows store apps, they will update automatically (like windows) and you will have a complete always up to date system. If you need non Windows store apps, you can always install Chocolatey and install/update apps rapidly.
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I don't get all the Win 10 hatred around here. Sometimes it seems like people haven't really tried it.
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people often hate Windows on past experience and if you're don't use it a lot, you won't know how to do things the right way.
The first time I got a Mac, I hated a lot of things about it. I was trying to do things the way I used to do them on Windows and it didn't work. I had to do a step back, learn the 'Mac OS' way and I was able to enjoy the system after that. People need to accept the differences and move on!
Windows 10, MacOS and Linux are great, spread the words!
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That's what I would guess. I can imagine that Microsoft was dragged kicking and screaming into supporting Apple. That's why I don't think Microsoft Office performance on iMacs is a good measure of the hardware's capability. I don't think too many people plunk down the cash for 5K iMac primarily to run Office apps, nor do I think that how fast they start is as important as how fast they run.
Comparing Windows and Mac version of office is a silly thing and not a measure of performance in any way. If someone would measure calculation on macro's performance that would be ideal. Measuring startup performance is silly. Office is built with shared libraries which are often alread preloaded in ram by Windows itself or other applications. Theses libaries aren't preloaded on the Mac and would lead to longer startup.
If someone wants benchmark something, do it from within the app itself.
