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Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] balian@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 11 points 1 day ago

Obvious course of events considering how the commodity PC market is essentially cut off from RAM supply for an indeterminate number of years with no respite in sight. Memory isn't cheap anymore, and if they kept making Windows 11 as they used to it won't be long before PCs in the market are simply left unable to run the OS at all.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

They already know that the solution exists in their Windows for Legacy PCs but they don’t care about it and will waste their time and money going in a loop.

That is why they needed outside help to get Windows for Legacy PCs to hit their memory target

[–] balian@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 6 points 1 day ago

Windows for Legacy PCs

Low-margin product with no feasible return over the costs it takes to build and maintain. Windows 11 meanwhile is the main advertising and cross-selling platform for Microsoft's high-margin cloud and AI products. Little wonder they prefer one over the other.

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