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tldr: should I never ever update my Windows 8 again lest it becomes slow af?

It seems so. Sooner or later people will post some benchmarks so we'll have more precise knowledge. At this point the statements from MS are a bit fuzzy.

Fuzzy, yes. But they do declare that a lot of people will notice slow downs day to day.

They need to ve very conservative in the statements and err on the side of caution. It's better for people to find out is not as bad as they thought than to find out it's worse than they thought.

Microsoft will do so as well:

>We will publish data on benchmark performance in the weeks ahead.

more like "tldr: wait for benchmarks"

Or just do them yourself, like others did:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/7ohbfi/i5_2500k_m... http://www.guru3d.com/articles-summary/windows-vulnerability...

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