bheer writes “Microsoft’s Windows 8 blog has a good post about the work being done to reduce Windows 8’s memory footprint. 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.”

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