On Windows 10 the Weather application uses 2-4MB when not active, which climbs to around 490-550MB when active.
On Windows 11 the Weather application doesn't appear to be running at all when not active and it climbs to about 540MB when active.
No where near the results presented in the article, however:
The amount of memory used could vary by region and provider used to get the weather data, so in my region it would only use half a gig, in the USA it could use a lot more.
Half a gig is still too much for a Weather application to use, even with all the images and animations that it has I would estimate it only needs to be half as big at most.
I'm puzzled by why Microsoft made this into a Web based application since they could have written something much more efficient with native code, it's not as if they needed to target multiple different operating systems, just Windows and now just a single version of it.
If any place should be mostly filled with native application developers it should be Microsoft. No test engineers any more but there should be plenty of native application developers.
That would be nice, but I think the fact that they can pay web devs much less than native guys is probably a big factor in addition to the number of available applicants.
On Windows 10 the Weather application uses 2-4MB when not active, which climbs to around 490-550MB when active. On Windows 11 the Weather application doesn't appear to be running at all when not active and it climbs to about 540MB when active.
No where near the results presented in the article, however:
The amount of memory used could vary by region and provider used to get the weather data, so in my region it would only use half a gig, in the USA it could use a lot more.
Half a gig is still too much for a Weather application to use, even with all the images and animations that it has I would estimate it only needs to be half as big at most.
I'm puzzled by why Microsoft made this into a Web based application since they could have written something much more efficient with native code, it's not as if they needed to target multiple different operating systems, just Windows and now just a single version of it.