If it was "clutter free", it would not need 64GB. It might even work with 4GB or less.
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Clearly, the focus is on local AI development β a timely move as cloud AI token costs start to rise.
AI token costs are only rising for people with low AI proficiency who compensate for that by just using expensive models for everything. For others, the costs are dropping quite a lot, largely thanks to Chinese models (GLM, Kimi, Qwen, etc.)
"Our new product is our old product with fewer kicks in the face."
Microslop must be getting tired of all the winning.
/s, obviously
I mean, if they are playing most on target hits with a footgun they are winning big time.
The goal, really, is to cut the crud out of Windows to create a more Linux-like experience.
LOL. I'll just keep using Linux, thank you very much. Great article though:
[β¦] demanding 64GB of RAM in the age of the RAMaggedon seems inexcusable. (Especially because Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI and its overall AI push is a big reason memory prices have skyrocketed.)
requires 64gb ram
Bitch, l'm running an up-to-date distro on my 8GB netbook!
Plenty of memory addresses to go around with 64gb of RAM. Take your pick.
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The best part about Microsoft is removing it from a computer so you can watch Linux being installed.
Don't be so mean. You can do many useful things on windows. Like for example selecting Linux distro, downloading it and saving on an USB.
And you can use its image creation tool to write a Windows installer .iso to a thumbdrive, for others who absolutely have to have it!
Fucked if I can work out why downloading the Windows .iso in Linux and writing it to USB has not once resulted in a bootable medium for me, despite literally every non-MS .iso working perfectly with the same tools.
Lol I just found my burned CD-ROM of windows 10. I seem to remember asking on reddit how I can get a disk copy when they were offering a free upgrade from windows 7 to windows 10. Everyone clowned on me and downvoted and saying I was ridiculous for asking such a thing. Looks like I figured it out somehow.
Is asking for a physical copy such a ridiculous request lol? It gives me peace of mind that I can reinstall whenever.
Whatever, I've since moved onto Linux only for the last 5 years or so. The days of dual booting are long behind me. Funny enough in that pile of CD-ROMs was Ubuntu 10.04, the first distro I ever used. I remember doing a bunch of convoluted bullshit to get Oblivion to run on WINE haha.
Don't be so mean? Sometimes I use Edge to download a different browser then uninstall Windows.
Like for example selecting Linux distro, downloading it and saving on an USB.
Using an USB thing is the somewhat decadent newfangled way to do things. The more classy way was to download the whole distro to an 1.44 MB floppy drive. \installation was by dd .... of=/dev/fd0. Yeah, it required 16 megabytes of RAM. It was possible to boot it on an 386 PC. Though kernel compiles were a bit lengthy.
Heh, I remember another distro called Floppix β small enough to fix on two floppy disks
Why not just PXE boot it over the token ring network?
Didn't have a network card.
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The goal, really, is to cut the crud out of Windows to create a more Linux-like experience.
but
for powerful developer hardware with 64GB of RAM and gobs of memory bandwidth.
????
If their idea of distraction-free requires 64GB of RAM, they're pretty lost as a company.
640K ought to be enough for anyone
Why do developers need 64GB+ RAM on their computers? Maybe Iβm biased as a Ruby on Rails web application developer but Iβm happily squeaking by on just 8GB RAM. Maybe theyβre developing with the memory-hungry VS Code?
I thought it was the gamers who needed tons of RAM.
Visual Studio, VS Code, WSL2, docker containers, SQL Server + SSMS, MS Teams, ...
Usually all at the same time. Not everyone is doing just web dev.
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Its AI.
8 GB woyldn't be nearly enough to run a large enterprise server while also running all my other apps in the background. At work I use a MacBook with 48 GB of RAM and the memory pressure regularly goes into yellow.
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64GB of RAM to use it.
Does that mean it does not run on my beloved Thinkpad X220 with 4GB?
Looks like I am stuck with running Debian 13 on it.
Fun fact, at $currentwork there are two true believers in AI and somehow they managed to procure me a laptop for home office which weights in roughly 9 kilograms - a bit more than six times as heavy as my 12 year old X220. Must be the battery which is needed to power the NVidia graphics card.
You need 64 GB or RAM to use it? Seems like it's just a marketing gimmick to find dumb developers who can afford 64GB of RAM in the first place. Kind of like that "I am Rich" app....
it's 64gb so you can run local ai models to 're-clutter' your windows experience.
Some of us bought our 64gb of ram when it was cheap.
I have 128gb. I didn't need 128gb but it was a good deal and thought fuck it, i spent too much into AM4 anyway might as well go all in and not bother with AM5 for another four years if ever.
I almost did the same but settled on 64GB :`(
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You believed Microslop once, that's on them. You believed Microslop twice, that's on you.
Clearly, the focus is on local AI development β a timely move as cloud AI token costs start to rise.
This is called burying the lede.
If Microsoft knows this cloud-based AI thing is a bust and people will be moving to local models that are not controlled by Microsoft or OpenAI or Anthropic, then it's only a few months before Satya tells his investors buddies and the bubble pops.
I find this unlikely... IMO I think they are hedging in both directions.
Personally I like the idea of local AI. open source models that you an control, decide, and use smartly, sort your things etc... and not pay an absurd cost or link up.
Personally I think MS is actually betting on the opposite. IE they had a prototype windows that was basically just an AI prompt, no start menu etc... and applications just "streamed".
IMO I think that's more of the goal, use the data center buildout to drive up hardware prices, until people cannot afford a basic PC. Sell thin clients... then sell us "access" to compute in a form where we own nothing, but pay by the processes used etc...
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Is this their follow up to the wildly successful Project Test Everything In Production?
They never stopped that one, actually
Zero details about what clutter they're going to remove...
E: Reading the original Windows release does not mention anything at all about decluttering. They do call it "distraction-free" at one point, but no elaboration on what that means...
Given the memory requirement, my guess is that they're not removing anything, just hiding it. And adding more useless crap on top.
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Lmao
rofl, even.
Iβm sure the event viewer, resource monitor, etc will support hidpi with this right and itβs not just gonna be another Ui layer painted on top of all the old ones like a shitty apartment where you can cut the wall and count the layers of paint
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