Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint

[wraggster]

Microsoft's Windows 8 blog has a good post about the work being done to reduce Windows 8's memory footprint (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/07/reducing-runtime-memory-in-windows-8.aspx). The OS will use multiple approaches to do this, including combining RAM pages, re-architecting old bits of code and adding new APIs for more granular memory management. Interestingly, it will also let services start on a trigger and stop when needed instead of running all the time.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/08/1259218/windows-8-to-reduce-memory-footprint