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Windows Central
Windows Central
Technology
Zac Bowden

"Apple does this and you love it": Microsoft VP fires back at trolls over Windows 11's new performance boost feature. "It's not cheating; this is how modern systems make apps feel fast."

A Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Ultra (Gen 11) Aura Edition laptop screen shows a home screen with open taskbar featuring app icons.

Last week, Windows Central exclusively revealed that Microsoft is working on a new performance boost feature for Windows 11 that will speed up all launches and flyouts by a significant amount. The feature is called "Low Latency Profile," and works by briefly maxing out CPU frequency in short bursts to achieve faster response times.

This is a common practice, one that Apple and Google have adopted on their own platforms in recent years, yet the Low Latency Profile feature on Windows 11 has been met with a surprising amount of pushback. Users online are calling this a "lazy" solution to fix Windows 11's performance problems, and others are criticizing Microsoft for not optimizing the code to speed up performance instead. A lot of people are also just trolling because it's popular to dunk on Microsoft.

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