{"id":137847,"date":"2026-08-03T08:22:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/microsoft-says-8-gb-of-ram-should-be-enough-for-anyone-running-windows-11\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T08:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:23:05","slug":"microsoft-says-8-gb-of-ram-should-be-enough-for-anyone-running-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/microsoft-says-8-gb-of-ram-should-be-enough-for-anyone-running-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Redmond provides new gadgets to its make-Home windows-better record<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Microsoft has added 4 new gadgets to the to-do record it set itself to enhance the standard of Home windows 11.<\/p>\n

Redmond’s record landed in March 2026<\/a> in response to customers’ anger at Home windows 11 changing into more and more flaky and needy.<\/p>\n

Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s government VP for Home windows and Gadgets, promised “improved reminiscence effectivity, decreasing the baseline reminiscence footprint for Home windows, releasing up extra capability for the apps you run.”<\/p>\n

Final Friday, Davuluri reviewed Microsoft’s efforts in a brand new post<\/a> that’s unsurprisingly passionate about Redmond’s restore job \u2013 though a lot of the work is but to seem in manufacturing variations of Home windows. Among the many work Davuluri lauded was eradicating some AI options, bettering driver high quality, and trying to make the Windows Insider program less convoluted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However he additionally acknowledges there’s extra to be performed and that reminiscence effectivity is but to manifest.<\/p>\n

“We have steadily been introducing a number of enhancements to the reminiscence effectivity of Home windows, from benefiting from a extra environment friendly reminiscence allocator to cut back overhead throughout apps and elements, continued tuning of WinUI 3 in order that apps constructed on it use much less reminiscence by design, in addition to driving efficiencies throughout Chromium and Webview2 elements after they seem within the working system,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

Davuluri’s put up additionally reveals that Microsoft has determined to work on 4 new areas it hopes will make Home windows much less craptastic.<\/p>\n

The third of these is “Reminiscence optimization for 8 GB and above,” which Davuluri describes as “lowering Home windows reminiscence footprint to ship a quick and responsive Home windows expertise throughout the PCs prospects use daily.”<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s system requirements for Windows 11<\/a> state that the OS wants a PC geared up with at the very least 4 GB of reminiscence, or 16 GB of expensive DDR5\/LPDDR5 to qualify as a Copilot+ PC able to dealing with AI workloads. The software program large seemingly assumes Home windows customers are all clamoring to run Copilot and different AI, so working to make sure that Home windows 11 can run on 8 GB of reminiscence seems like a tacit admission that Copilot+ PCs aren’t thrilling consumers, maybe as a result of present excessive value of reminiscence. Or maybe as a result of folks simply do not see a lot worth in paying additional for an AI-capable PC.<\/p>\n

Another excuse for the change would be the declining PC market, which analyst agency IDC just lately forecast<\/a> will expertise a 11.3 p.c cargo droop in 2026, and 20 p.c drop in calendar This fall alone. “The wrongdoer is a persistent reminiscence scarcity with no significant aid anticipated earlier than the top of 2027,” the agency said. “The knock-on results are vital: costs are rising and PC producers are struggling to keep up full product portfolios.”<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s three different new Home windows enchancment priorities are:<\/p>\n