Thread: Windows 8 will require less memory

One of the biggest criticisms of Windows Vista was a huge memory consumption, because the operating system alone addressed by a considerable amount of memory. Windows 7 is already less demanding in this regard and Windows 8 will now be even more economical.


According to Microsoft, this development is justified primarily by the small SoC systems, since producers must otherwise obstruct more memory, which in turn would have a higher power consumption and therefore a lower battery life result. A design goal of Windows 8 states that the hardware requirements, despite new features are expected to exceed those of Windows 7.




And that's what Microsoft wants to be successful on Windows 8th Thus, the evidence shows a screenshot of Task Manager on a system with a 1024 MB of memory. Windows 7 automatically assigned without manually starting from 404 MB programs, while Windows 8 will address only 281 MB - almost 30 percent less. Same time, Microsoft insists, however, that this has been tested on different systems and thus the results are not entirely comparable. If the graphics driver is disabled, Windows will address eight even slightly less than 200 MB of memory, and that this scenario is purely theoretical.


In order for Windows requires less memory 8 according to information the developers have built hundreds of optimizations. So shall the operating system can recognize, among other things when you have redundant copies of the same data are repeatedly stored in memory (which can be done by requesting the same data from different programs) and deletes them automatically.This should have no impact on the applications, but reduce memory consumption by several tens to several hundreds of megabytes, depending on how many programs are open.