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WhatsApp for Windows is reportedly using hundreds of megabytes of memory before login and as much as roughly 1.2GB after normal chat use on Windows 11, after Meta replaced its native UWP client with a Chromium WebView2-based desktop wrapper in 2025. The numbers matter because this is not a...

Microsoft’s habit of killing and resurrecting desktop widgets has become less a product-development story and more a case study in indecision: from Active Desktop through Vista/7 Gadgets to Windows 8’s Live Tiles and the modern Windows 11 Widgets board, the same idea — putting dynamic...

AI’s appetite for memory and storage has reshaped the PC market faster than many hobbyists expected, and the idea that this is a coordinated plot to “kill local PCs” is seductive—but misleading. What’s actually happening is a mix of market concentration, prioritization of higher‑margin AI...

Microsoft has quietly confirmed a practical but partial fix for one of the most persistent complaints about its desktop collaboration app: Teams will soon run calling features in a separate child process — ms-teams_modulehost.exe — in an effort to reduce startup time and blunt the worst of the...