Windows 11 Weather app

“the Windows 11 app that wastes one gigabyte showing the weather”

“If they can't do it with infinity budget and infinity AI, they're not going to be able to do it with that plus Rust.”

“that 1GB+ belongs to Microsoft's advertisers and their many video ads”

“It is essentially an entire Chromium instance around msn.com/weather.”

“This weather app uses 20 times more memory than an entire operating system from 25 years ago.”

“thought it would be a good idea to build an app that would require that many bits”

“That's a pretty crappy way to detect it seems, it thinks I'm in some city almost a thousand miles away”

“Half a gig is still too much for a Weather application to use”

“it got annoying to cancel the autoupdate for that specific app”

“is your Weather app important enough to waste 1GB on your users' PCs?”

“A major part of the Weather app bloat comes from the browser engine it comes with”

“'get rich quick' ads, distracting video ads, and of course LLM-gen ads”

“I still think I prefer the Microsoft tool.”

“Why is a weather app using any more than like 10-20MB or so of RAM!?”

“animated radar, easy to pan around in the radar view, extra map modes, lots of graphical elements to the presentation”

“it's because I forgot to close my weather app and it's just blasting away at the processor”

“Not surprised to see the ~75MB for the high graphical fidelity of the app”

“is 230MB for a weather app really something to be proud off?”

“That doesn't take away at all from the complete absurdity of this level of bloat.”

“Even a weather app that uses "only" 250MB of RAM should never have been delivered by a semi professional software shop”

“Why would you take a perfectly working app and downgrade it like this?”

“the incremental increase in RAM usage from the Weather app is likely much smaller than the headline 1GB”

“It has one literally one job and 300 MB is like an order of magnitude off for that.”

“At the end of the day bloated app is a bloated app its consequences are the same.”

“It is literally the MSN Weather website packaged as a WebView2 app.”

“using a webview for displaying the weather... I get why they do it, but it's a scourge”

“completely insane even when you start off with daft as your starting point”

“It's cheaper to make it bloated because quality is costly.”

“It's like some decision-maker thinks it's OK to waste memory”

“MS might suck at memory efficiency, but you can't claim they'd ever miss an opportunity to monetize their users”

“I also like the weather icons being 4K and having some smooth anmiations.”

“genuinely a great map - ahem, optimizations aside”

“1GB is clearly overkill, no question. But ~100MB to ~300MB is perfectly reasonable and you know it.”

“Anything above 50MB RAM for this is shameful imo and reflect poor engineering.”

“I hate that 100MiB is considered efficient for telling me if it's going to rain later.”

“the (static?) map in the depicted app shouldn't take 1GB”

“You need some icons and some map imagery, not 4K texture maps”

“It's just msn weather page. Can't they use one single browser for all their apps instead of one per app?”

“A well thought-out, native Weather app wouldn't take more than 100 mb of RAM.”

“is changed into a stock ticker and tabloid news cornucopia”