With its new OS, Windows 8, Microsoft also has to focus on the optimization scaling back the hardware requirements ...
Bill Karagounis, teammate of Team 8, Microsoft Windows, released a note on the consumption of system RAM. There has in particular the efforts by Microsoft to make Windows 8 or less RAM intensive than is Windows 7.
A small puzzle according to him, since it takes "to succeed in setting up an advanced interface and richer while decreasing resource consumption." The efforts in a comprehensive, Microsoft aiming to scale back the hardware requirements of the OS with this new version.
And if Microsoft is so hard to Windows 8 uses little RAM, it is also because the system is designed to be compatible - Platform ARM - with touch pads which are not as well endowed with RAM traditional PCs. Thus, Windows 8 will offer several beautiful interfaces including Metro enriched with "tiles dynamic", it will remain fluid and not grab all available memory.
According to early returns and tests known cold-launched on the same machine, Windows 8 consume 281 MB RAM 404 MB for Windows against 7. And the constant minimum CPU load would rise from 5% to 1%. This shows the optimization efforts made ??by Microsoft. A check with the release of Windows 8 in final
