I think bloat peaked during the Windows Vista days. I had a friend with Vista on their computer and it was unbelievably slow. This was probably late 2007 or ear

I think bloat peaked during the Windows Vista days. I had a friend with Vista on their computer and it was unbelievably slow. This was probably late 2007 or early 2008, which was a while before SSDs were popular in mainstream laptops. I mean, things are definitely still bloated now, but fast storage can make up for it.