I checked this on my computers: 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…
> I'm puzzled by why Microsoft made this into a Web based application The number and availability of native UI programmers compared to web devs is a rounding error.
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.