There might be a seed of truth there, but FWIW, I’m not very convinced by that. CPU speed development has slowed down a bit for sure, but software development is going faster than ever. GitHub and NPM and Python 3 and Rust all didn’t exist in 2007. CUDA was first released that year. LLMs weren’t being used. At the start of 2007, the latest Windows version was Windows 5, one more than Windows 4. Almost same as today. There isn’t a Windows 12 yet, while Windows 6 was released in 2007. So the pace of major Windows versions might be slightly slower. OTOH, the OS is much bigger than it used to be and it gets more frequent updates and point releases now than it did in 2007.
> At the start of 2007, the latest Windows version was Windows 5, one more than Windows 4
Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) was released in 1999. Vista was NT 6, and released in 2006.