> which takes upward of 40 sec to get to the desktop. My ancient Core i5 with a whopping 4 cores gets to the Windows 10 desktop in just a few seconds. The tru

> which takes upward of 40 sec to get to the desktop. My ancient Core i5 with a whopping 4 cores gets to the Windows 10 desktop in just a few seconds. The truth is that people care much more about features than performance -- especially system/app start up performance. Microsoft has always bet on Moore's law -- building software just not quite usable on modern hardware knowing that eventually hardware will catch up. Anyone designing software for today is immediately behind tomorrow.