The performance uplift stems from compression techniques that retain up to 2GB more active data in physical memory rather than paging out to disk. System adjustments across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365 curb memory growth by up to 900MB, which includes saving roughly 360MB across core Office tools like Word and Excel. Furthermore, the Edge browser will now automatically sleep inactive tabs after 15 minutes of inactivity. Lab metrics from Microsoft indicate these combined measures make systems up to 20 percent more responsive overall.
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Microsoft is actively optimizing software footprints to ensure standard hardware configur…: Microsoft is actively optimizing software footprints to ensure standard hardware configurations remain performant under daily workloads.
Office applications and system components received targeted modifications that significan…: Office applications and system components received targeted modifications that significantly lower overall committed-memory growth.
Upcoming updates will implement shared web engines for search and widgets while collabora…: Upcoming updates will implement shared web engines for search and widgets while collaborating with chipmakers to reduce hardware-reserved memory.
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Microsoft has been doing a lot of work to improve memory usage and increase performance on Windows 11 PCs over the past year. Last month the company revealed Windows 11 is now “more responsive” and runs better on PCs with 8GB of RAM, and now the company is releasing a new update today that includes further memory improvements.
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A new Windows 11 update is improving memory usage and performance.
A new Windows 11 update is improving memory usage and performance.
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