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Originally Posted by BWinmill
I'm not denying that Windows 7 is faster on your computer, or any computer that was manufactured over the past few years. The issue is with older computers: computers with less RAM, with video drivers that don't support Windows new graphics architecture, lack hyperthreading or multiple cores, and so forth.
Think of it this way: if Windows was getting unconditionally faster, then people would be able to run it on lesser and lesser hardware. That most certainly isn't the case. What is happening is that newer versions of Windows are taking advantage of new features and greater resources in order to improve performance. Older versions of Windows couldn't do that because of built-in assumptions (e.g. limited RAM) or because the features simply did not exist when it was developed. This means that recent versions of Windows will be faster than XP on newer hardware. It also means that recent versions of Windows will be slower on older hardware, if it works at all.
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The reason you cannot run newer Windows on old hardware is that you need to have certain processor features. So processors that ran XP might not be able to run Windows 8.1. It's called PROGRESS. Do you want to buy new hardware to find that your OS doesn't make use of it? No, you don't.