Windows 11's RAM-hogging, advert-laden Weather app is the poster child for everything that's wrong with the operating system
Worried about the RAM crisis? Microsoft isn't, if Windows 11's Weather app is anything to go by.
Windows 11's Weather app has garnered significant attention for its excessive use of RAM and intrusive advertisements. As reported by Windows Latest, the app can consume up to 1.2GB of system memory, which is five times more than the native Weather app on macOS. On the reporter's Windows 11 machine, the app peaked at around 1GB, but it dropped to 800MB.
Despite this, the app's heavy system footprint is still evident. Furthermore, the Weather app displays full-fledged advertisements from the MSN network, which appear as panels next to the weather details. These ads are for products unrelated to Microsoft, like shoes and medical insurance. The app's web-based nature is the reason behind its high resource consumption, as it runs eight separate Chromium processes.
Microsoft has acknowledged the performance issues and aims to address them, but the Weather app's memory usage and advertisements remain a clear reminder of the OS's unnecessary bloat. Users have expressed disappointment over the ads in Windows 10's Weather app as well, with some arguing that a paid operating system should not feature promotional content.
The issue highlights the need for Microsoft to prioritize performance improvements and eliminate unnecessary ads in Windows 11.
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