@Suiseiseki a computer from 2009 with absolute top of the line components, hell even a dual or quad socket server, would be dogshit slow at the bare minimum task of opening a web browser. best case scenario, you're looking at a first gen i7, probably 24GB of DDR3-1600 (i don't remember if 8GB modules were around yet so we'll assume 6x4 in a regular ATX board), a GTX 295, and a SATA3 SSD capable of a few thousand IOPS. it ain't looking good.

it's not just microsoft working hard to undo all the hardware performance gains, but literally everyone who writes software.