I personally love Windows 11, but reading the comments under this article, it's quite clear that they need to focus on performance in 25H2 (and please, for the love of god, stop using React for the Start menu).

This feels like one of those things they largely stopped focusing on and these after the fact efforts aren't likely to fix.

In complex systems once you stop caring, I'm not sure you patch your way back into caring.

This is why I hack the registry to stop updates. I'm on earlier build that is pretty stable, and I am tired of updates breaking this stability for no benefit to me.

Software companies have a toxic business model at the moment. They make software and expect the testing to be done by the end user. There is not even a conversation about it. End users pay to consume bad software that gets patched over time and it also changes over time, and to top it off you don't even own it and it's actually a license.

Of course the solution is to use Linux, but we're in this hole because for-profit companies have aggressive market strategies that force adoption and create interdependencies that make it hard for any other software to compete. It's like the network-effect but for software usage, but I digress.

Windows used to have a performance fundamentals team of hundreds of engineers and I am assuming it is still the case; but it’s always a battle against other teams not having the same priorities (not to mention third-party junk and drivers). This will hopefully help route high-signal stuff like flame graphs and detailed multi-progress CPU traces to the responsible teams.