Microsoft says Windows 11 is getting faster, without publishing figures
Insider testers report gains in responsiveness, but Microsoft offers no measurement to back the claim.
Microsoft says Windows 11 is becoming more responsive. The claim comes from Marcus Ash, who leads design and research for Windows and Microsoft devices, in an email to members of the Windows Insider programme. No figures are published to support it.
Test builds have moved in recent months: File Explorer opens faster, even without preloading, and the right-click menu has been slimmed down and made customizable. A June update had already brought performance gains able to revive somewhat older PCs.
Most of these changes stay with Insiders, so many users see nothing yet. Some do reach a wider public: the taskbar can be moved again, five years after it lost that ability, and the Start menu can be resized. The rollout happens in waves.
Microsoft promises more for the autumn and plans to extend these settings to more PCs and share its concepts earlier with testers. It declines to compare performance before and after, and Ash points to testers who say they feel the improvements. On a machine with 8 GB of RAM, the gap with Linux on memory use works against Windows 11.
