Neowin News Feed for: Performance

Five things I hate about Microsoft Teams

Usama Jawad — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:00:01 +0000

Millions rely on Microsoft Teams daily, but that doesn't stop many of us from absolutely despising parts of the experience. Read more...

KB5083631: Microsoft explains how Windows 11 will get significantly faster soon

Sayan Sen — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:10:27 +0000

Microsoft says multiple upgrades are coming to Windows 11 components that should lead to a hefty performance improvement. Read more...

AMD Ryzen 3D V-cache CPUs surprisingly show big benefits on Windows 11 in a new test

Sayan Sen — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:28:01 +0000

Everyone knows AMD 3D V-cache CPUs are some of the best chips for gaming. However, in a new test, these Ryzen processors are massive improvements. Read more...

Report: Windows instability is causing a lot of issues in enterprise environments

Usama Jawad — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:12:02 +0000

New data reveals how badly Windows instability is hurting workplaces, with disruptions piling up more than most expect. Read more...

Microsoft is optimizing Teams significantly for some customers

Usama Jawad — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:04:01 +0000

Microsoft just gave Teams a major performance boost on mobile, but only certain users will feel the difference. Read more...

Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus benchmark surfaces, rivals desktop 285K and AMD Ryzen

Fiza Ali — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:16:02 +0000

New Intel benchmark numbers have surfaced for Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus; early results hint at a notable leap. Read more...

Indexing in Windows 11 can make File Explorer and Search much faster

Usama Jawad — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:30:01 +0000

Windows 11 has built-in options to make the file searching process in Search and File Explorer much faster. However, this comes with some trade-offs. Read more...

A key component in Windows 11 is getting a huge performance boost soon

Usama Jawad — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 06:36:01 +0000

Microsoft is making significant enhancements to a core Windows 11 security feature, bringing performance improvements of up to 70%. Read more...

Microsoft: Gaming on Windows 11 is going to get so much better in 2026

Usama Jawad — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:08:01 +0000

Microsoft has promised to make "Windows the best place to play" through upcoming features like AI upscaling through Auto SR. Read more...

Microsoft is making File Explorer in Windows 11 faster, and I couldn't be happier

Usama Jawad — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:20:01 +0000

Microsoft has finally acknowledged that File Explorer in Windows 11 is quite slow, and is implementing a workaround to fix the issue. Read more...

A crucial Edge feature will get considerably faster soon

Usama Jawad — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:34:02 +0000

After migrating some existing Edge components to WebUI2 earlier this year, Microsoft is planning a similar upgrade for another feature, bringing performance gains. Read more...

Microsoft reveals performance boost for .NET MAUI apps after Google forces 16 KB page sizes

Paul Hill — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 06:52:01 +0000

Microsoft has reminded .NET developers for Android that they need to update their apps to support 16 KB page size by November. Its latest .NET MAUI 9 supports this automatically. Read more...

"Use DLSS" says Gearbox boss after facing Borderlands 4 performance backlash

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:58:01 +0000

The Gearbox-developed looter shooter Borderlands 4 has been in hot water regarding its poor performance, but the studio CEO says the PC version is "pretty damn optimal." Read more...

Microsoft claims its new mssql-python driver is miles better than pyodbc

Usama Jawad — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:04:02 +0000

Microsoft is previewing its new mssql-python driver, claiming that it is significantly faster and better than the industry-standard pyodbc. Read more...

'Clean' vs 'dirty' Windows 11 performance was benchmarked, results may surprise you

Sayan Sen — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:32:01 +0000

A freshly installed Windows 11 PC was tested against a 'dirty' older install to see who wins. The results may surprise you. Read more...

Intel Nova Lake alleged performance shows massive improvement, could answer AMD 3D V-cache

Sayan Sen — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:40:01 +0000

Intel's official performance claims have allegedly leaked. Apparently, there could be a massive improvement thanks to more cores and a new 3D cache, similar to AMD's. Read more...

Native Discord app for Windows on Arm now in development

Usama Jawad — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:54:01 +0000

Discord has revealed that a native Windows on Arm app is currently in development. Although it is in the early stages, it seems to be quite good in terms of performance. Read more...

Despite the no-show, AMD RDNA 4 gets sneakily benchmarked. 9070 XT may be better than hoped

Sayan Sen — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:48:01 +0000

AMD's RDNA 4 was a no-show at the CES 2025 event. However, a major media outlet sneakily managed to test the RX 9070 and it may be better than expected. Read more...

Report: Galaxy S24 FE's Exynos 2400e beats Apple's A18 chip in ray tracing performance

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:16:02 +0000

In a recent 3DMark's Solar Bay ray tracing performance test, Samsung Galaxy S24 FE's Exynos 2400e beat the iPhone 16's A18 chipset by a big margin. Read more...

Liquid AI's LFMs challenge ChatGPT with innovative architecture and specs

Paul Hill — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:02:03 +0000

With models ranging from LFM 1.3B to LFM 40B MoE, Liquid AI claims its technology outperforms comparable models from major tech companies without the high memory demands. Read more...

Review: The Turtle Beach Burst II Air wireless gaming mouse is lighter than a Mars bar

Robbie Khan — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:00:01 +0000

Just don't try to eat it... The Roccat brand is no more, Turtle Beach's takeover has resulted in some legacy gaming products seeing a refresh, so let's put the Burst II Air through its paces. Read more...

Microsoft's official Windows performance boost app feels your PC is broken if you snub Bing

Sayan Sen — Thu, 16 May 2024 17:16:01 +0000

The official Microsoft performance-boosting and clean-up app for Windows called "PC Manager" thinks a user's PC needs repairing if they choose to ignore Bing. But it's hardly a surprise at this point. Read more...

Vision Pro might tweak performance in some cases, says Apple

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:16:01 +0000

Apple has published a support document describing how the Vision Pro might perform in various conditions affecting the battery. Users might experience changes in the performance of the headset. Read more...

Cities: Skylines 2 studio is working on patches to hit 30FPS performance target

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:16:02 +0000

Colossal Order is working on updates to improve Cities: Skylines 2's severe launch performance on PC. FSR2 and DLSS2 support are also being worked on, but there aren't any launch dates yet. Read more...

Microsoft explains why it doesn't publish Windows 365 Cloud PC performance metrics

Usama Jawad — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 05:00:01 +0000

Microsoft has published an explainer detailing why it does not publish specific performance metrics for its Windows 365 Cloud PC offerings. It does publish relative performance details though. Read more...

WhatsApp for Windows is now faster with improved calling capabilities

Usama Jawad — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:14:02 +0000

WhatsApp has unveiled many improvements for its Windows client. These include better aesthetics, faster performance, audio and video calls with larger groups, and more. A Mac app is being built too. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Free USB drives, Bing AI in Edge, and pirated Windows

Usama Jawad — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:36:02 +0000

Our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly is jampacked with news about Microsoft handing out free USBs to Insiders, the integration of AI in even more Redmond products, and pirated Windows (!). Read more...

Google likely to lay off 10,000 ‘poor performing' employees

Hemant Saxena — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 07:30:01 +0000

A letter from a UK investor claims Google's current headcount is “excessive” as compared to hiring patterns in the past. As such, the company may lay off its low-performing employees to reduce costs. Read more...

These are all the performance improvements in Visual Studio 2022 17.4

Usama Jawad — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 03:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has detailed the performance gains in Visual Studio 2022 17.4. Most Save operations have been moved to a background thread and Find and Replace in Files should be a whopping 3-4x faster. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Windows 11 performance, adoption, and new features

Usama Jawad — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 17:00:01 +0000

This week's edition of Microsoft Weekly is jam-packed with news about Windows 11, including items related to its performance and bugs, growth, as well as some new features that were recently added. Read more...

Mozilla Firefox 105 now out with performance boosts for Windows and Linux

Usama Jawad — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 07:00:01 +0000

Mozilla Firefox 105 is now available, it packs significant improvements to how the browser handles low-memory situations. Both Linux and Windows customers will see the benefits of these changes. Read more...

DDR5 buyers enjoying nearly 40% faster performance in Spider-Man Remastered

Sayan Sen — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 13:14:01 +0000

Marvel's extremely popular Spider-Man Remastered becomes one of the first titles to show insane performance gains going from DDR4 to DDR5. In certain cases, the difference is nearly 40%. Read more...

WhatsApp on Windows ditches Electron in favor of UWP, now works standalone

Usama Jawad — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 06:56:01 +0000

WhatsApp has announced that its new app for Windows is now live. It ditches the web-based Electron framework in favor of Windows-native Universal Windows Platform (UWP) technologies. Read more...

Top 5 features I want in tabbed File Explorer in Windows 11

Usama Jawad — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 15:16:01 +0000

The Tabbed File Explorer in Windows 11 has finally arrived for all Dev Channel Insiders. While it is still in its infancy, here are five features I would like the new interface to have if it hits GA! Read more...

Microsoft Teams now runs natively on Apple Silicon, rolling out generally

Usama Jawad — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 07:04:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced the general availability of a Teams client that runs natively on Apple Silicon. The key benefit here is performance improvements as compared to running Teams on emulation. Read more...

Discord has adopted React Native for its Android app and people are not happy

Usama Jawad — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 12:44:02 +0000

Discord has adopted the cross-platform framework React Native for its Android app so it can keep up with the development pace of its clients on other OSes. However, there have been lots of complaints. Read more...

Microsoft is significantly reducing cold boot time on Xbox Series X|S

Usama Jawad — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:40:01 +0000

Microsoft is working on improvements for the cold boot start time in Xbox Series X|S consoles. The boot up animation has been reduced by five seconds, resulting in a 25% faster cold boot overall. Read more...

Microsoft updates Xbox system software to OS version 10.0.22000.4976

Paul Hill — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 23:16:01 +0000

Microsoft has released the latest Xbox system software. The release notes are fairly uninteresting, as this update focuses on general stability and performance improvements over new features. Read more...

Report: Microsoft Defender is hogging Intel CPUs while AMD Ryzen remains unscathed

Sayan Sen — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 08:04:02 +0000

A new report suggests that Microsoft Defender has a bug which is causing it to hog the CPU resources on a system using an Intel processor, leading to reduced performance. AMD is apparently unaffected. Read more...

Google Chrome 103 is landing today with faster page loads and local font access

Usama Jawad — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:00:02 +0000

Google Chrome 103 will be rolling out later today. This is a significant release that features a re-implementation of Chrome's pre-rendering method to improve speed, along with access to local fonts. Read more...