Microsoft says Windows 11 is 2x faster, except they used ancient PCs to benchmark Windows 10

Facepalm: Microsoft is once again aggressively pushing users to move from Windows 10 to Windows 11. This time, the Redmond firm is boasting that the newer OS is up to 2.3x faster than its predecessor – but fails to mention its deeply flawed testing methodology.

Tech giants aren't renowned for their honesty and openness. When it comes to making claims and pointing to benchmarks, it's not just Nvidia that plays fast and loose with the truth.

With Windows 10's October 14 end-of-life date approaching fast, Microsoft is publishing articles seemingly every other day to convince users to update to Windows 11. In the latest blog, Executive Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi writes that Windows 11 is 2.3x faster than Windows 10.

The figure comes from Geekbench 6 Multi-Core benchmark scores – Microsoft used just a single synthetic test for this claim – but this ...