Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026

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Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 - Lemmy NZ

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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.