Windows 8: -30% of consumption in RAM!

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