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Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads (www.gadgetreview.com)
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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

The weather app is probably using edge aka chrome and they are ram hogs. Event the streaming apps on windows uses edge to get hdr etc