Back in the day, nearly 2 years ago, Windows 7 was being praised for having such low system requirements. It was able to run on machines without any problems that couldn’t run Windows Vista, and it brought life back into older systems with low specs. We didn’t think that Windows could be any more memory efficient, but now it looks like Windows 8 is even more efficient again.
Early tests with the developer preview edition Windows 8 show that it uses a lot less memory than Windows 7. Microsoft demonstrated Windows 8 and Windows 7 SP1 on a low powered netbook with just 1GB of RAM. The results? Well Windows 7 used 404 MB of memory, while Windows 8 used just 281 MB, CPU usage was 5% and 1% respectively.
Microsoft really have been working hard to improve memory usage in Windows 8. They’ve employed a rake of new intelligent features for managing memory. You can read more about it all over at Windows 8 News
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