Microsoft makes serious "commitment" to boost Windows 11 25H2 performance

Almost four years ago, when Windows 11 was announced, Microsoft had said that the new OS was a better performer than Windows 10 as it was designed to get the best out of hardware, and it even demonstrated it. However, users failed to notice much of that and hence the company later promised that performance improvement for some of the major Windows UI/UX elements was on its agenda for 2022.

Over time, though, tests showed that Microsoft's promise was not quite materizaling and the underlying kernel for the two Windows versions may have had an answer for why that was, at least in the case of Intel's "Big-Bigger" CPUs.

However, Microsoft has always claimed otherwise and shared detailed stats for performance boosts on 11 back in 2023, and if we are to believe the company, even elements such as the clipboard carry some great optimization underneath.

While there is absolutely nothing inherently wrong about a company praising its own products, the issue is that Microsoft's claims are meant to mislead users into wrongly believing that the newer Windows 11 OS is much faster than Windows 10.

In October last year, Microsoft cited a paid study to declare Windows 11 the winner over 10 as it compared completely different systems: the faster hardware had Windows 11; and this year, the tech giant again repeated the same thing, albeit this time in a different package, making claims of 2.3x faster performance on Windows 11.

However, after all the promises, Microsoft may finally be getting more serious in terms of improving the OS performance and the general system sluggishness that users often report.

On the latest Dev and Beta builds, the company is introducing the ability to auto-generate system logs when the OS notices system performance issues. Microsoft however notes that users must report and submit the logs via the Feedback Hub so that the company can look into the root cause of the trouble.

It explains:

As part of our commitment to improving Windows performance, logs are now collected when your PC has experienced any slow or sluggish performance. Windows Insiders are encouraged to provide feedback when experiencing PC issues related to slow or sluggish performance, allowing Feedback Hub to automatically collect these logs, which will help us root cause issues faster.

 

Use the Desktop > System Sluggishness category when filing feedback to allow Feedback Hub to automatically pick up these logs. These logs are stored locally (%systemRoot%\Temp\DiagOutputDir\Whesvc folder) and only sent to Microsoft via Feedback Hub when feedback is submitted.

Hence, when Windows 11 25H2 is out to the general public later in the year, a lot of performance kinks should hopefully be ironed out. Aside from the UX improvements, Microsoft has also confirmed that it is trying to improve drivers on the upcoming Windows version by the way it is testing third-party drivers. You can find the details in this dedicated piece.

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Posted Tuesday 22 July 2025 at 4:57 am AEST (my time).

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