Can Microsoft Really Make Windows 11 Suck Less on Weak PCs?
Close to five years after Microsoft first launched Windows 11, the tech giant is finally offering the smallest token of love for cheap Windows machines. It’s not so much out of the goodness of its AI-fueled heart. Microsoft further promised to fix Windows 11’s Achilles’ heel—the excessive amount of memory the operating system hogs, even during minimal use.
- ▪Close to five years after Microsoft first launched Windows 11, the tech giant is finally offering the smallest token of love for cheap Windows machines.
- ▪It’s not so much out of the goodness of its AI-fueled heart.
- ▪Microsoft further promised to fix Windows 11’s Achilles’ heel—the excessive amount of memory the operating system hogs, even during minimal use.
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Close to five years after Microsoft first launched Windows 11, the tech giant is finally offering the smallest token of love for cheap Windows machines. It’s not so much out of the goodness of its AI-fueled heart. Microsoft has to support minimum-specced laptops because every other PC is too damn unaffordable.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000793959","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"gadgets","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"gadgets","TAGS":"laptops,microsoft,pcs,windows","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Over the weekend, Microsoft’s president of Windows and devices, Pavan…
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