Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

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Post by akyuu » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 3:11 PM UTC

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
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Post by iamcoder18 » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

This article seems to be underestimating how much RAM a weather app should take. A well thought-out, native Weather app wouldn't take more than 100 mb of RAM.

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Post by lousken » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

iamcoder18 wrote: post #2

This article seems to be underestimating how much RAM a weather app should take. A well thought-out, native Weather app wouldn't take more than 100 mb of RAM.

I am pretty sure xfce4 weather plugin takes a lot less.

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Post by feverzsj » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

It's just msn weather page. Can't they use one single browser for all their apps instead of one per app?

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Post by karmakurtisaani » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

iamcoder18 wrote: post #2

This article seems to be underestimating how much RAM a weather app should take. A well thought-out, native Weather app wouldn't take more than 100 mb of RAM.

This has strong "How much could a banana cost? 10 dollars?" vibes.

Back in my day 100MB was all you had for all your compute, and somehow programs still ran.

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Post by itopaloglu83 » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 4:29 PM UTC

And it also ads on it.

Really Microsoft? Do you really need all the ads revenue from the weather app?

What’s next? Ads on the start menu?

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Post by WakeUpPeople » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 4:31 PM UTC

itopaloglu83 wrote: post #6

And it also ads on it. Really Microsoft? Do you really need all the ads revenue from the weather app? What’s next? Ads on the start menu?

> What’s next? Ads on the start menu?

They already exist: https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-11-start-menu-ads-how-to-t...

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Post by mort96 » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 4:31 PM UTC

itopaloglu83 wrote: post #6

And it also ads on it. Really Microsoft? Do you really need all the ads revenue from the weather app? What’s next? Ads on the start menu?

Microsoft absolutely doesn't need it, but I'm guessing the weather app team (or the core filler apps team or whatever team is responsible for it) needs it to juice a metric to make some middle manager happy.

And it makes the middle manager happy because it lets that middle manager report better numbers to their superiors again.

Etc.

It's why all large dysfunctional organisations do self destructive stuff like this.

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Post by e2le » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 4:32 PM UTC

iamcoder18 wrote: post #2

This article seems to be underestimating how much RAM a weather app should take. A well thought-out, native Weather app wouldn't take more than 100 mb of RAM.

What is the weather app doing that it requires 100MB? For such a simple application, that seems excessive.

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Post by hyperhello » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 4:32 PM UTC

I would like to be assured that the author knows the difference between actual memory and setting aside paging space.