The spike's were irregular, but it did happen. When it happened during a game, it would simply crash the game AND briefly crash the entire Windows desktop. I was not the only one with this problem and I managed to resolve it by killing all the background apps. Which is something I shouldn't do normally, but when you have apps like "Camera", "Calender" and "Xbox" taking in rescources when they're not needed at all is just bad design.

So it's an ancedotal occurrence then?

It's a big problem, that being inconsistance of Windows 10. I'm not dissing Windows' architecture, which is quite good and Microsoft has a good track record for cleaning up their code after Windows XP and Vista. However, their direction of the OS itself, being with all elements attached is inconsistent and causes instability in various hardware configurations. I've seen mainly two camps of Windows users: those who don't have any problems at all and those who suffer a wide plethora of issues. Problem is people often deny the fact the platform has issues because they don't encounter them themselves. I've seen a range of issues on several machines I administer (including my own), ranging from poor RAM management due to inneficiënt backround tasks, instability of the desktop (which threw it's icons in dissaray), freezing of the search feature, disk access pinned at 100%, resetting of settings (mainly privacy and background app settings) after an update, downloads ending in TEMP folders instead of in downloads at random, compatability mode simply not working correctly (this is one which I encountered very often), random slow boot times, mismatching of DirectX versions, etc...

The problem is explaining this to people who don't have these issues, but these do occur and not only on my own machine. It's gone so far I just put the updates on "defer-updates" so all updates (except security updates) are pushed back by a month so I can at least expect some consistancy on my machine in the hope the updates are tried and true by the time they get to me.

I also ran Ubuntu on several machines I had problems with to see if the issues could be pinned on hardware, but except one machine which did have a failing hard drive, the issues could not be recreated.

I don't think MS wants to make Xbox a Windows 10 PC, but calling it Xbox 10 does bring those two platforms together and its essentially a reboot for the X1.

Huh, not a terrible idea.

I'll call it X1X

Sorry, resource management has fuck all to do with stability.

QNX RTOS.

I would say that falls under the *Nix umbrella anyway, even if it is very distinct from it.

Indeed, but it's memory management was exceptional, significantly better than anything any edition windows has ever done, be it consumer, server or embedded.