Windows 11 often requires new hardware. But that will be extremely pricey or have very little RAM for a while.
I dont believe that a single competent person works at Micro$oft anymore, but maybe maybe this could lead them to make a less shitty OS?
And garbage software like Adobe Creative Cloud too?
They obviously dont care about users, but the pain could become too big.
The RAM shortage will end before any meaningful memory optimizations can be made.
Naw it’s easy:
void* malloc(size_t size) { return std::malloc(size/2); }Is that what happened after COVID with chip shortage?
For the most part, the answer seems to be yes. Some products did also ship with missing or reduced feature sets for a time, too.
Dealing with memory usage will likely require significant rewrites and architectural changes. It will take years.
The ”memory optimizations” we’ll see is the removal of features but charge the same price. Software shrinkflation. Will require same amount of memory though.