Windows 11 Weather App Needs 1.5GB RAM Just To Display Rain
Microsoft proves that checking for rain requires the computing power of a space station while sneakily embedding sponsored banners into the forecast.
Tests conducted by Windows Latest and Wccftech revealed that the default weather app in Windows 11 consumes between 1 and 1.6 GB of RAM during simple UI navigation and map zooming.
By comparison, the stock weather application on macOS runs on under 250 MB under identical workload conditions.
The absurd memory footprint stems from the fact that the app is actually MSN Weather running inside a Microsoft WebView2 wrapper, launching multiple background Chromium processes just to show temperature cards.
On budget machines equipped with 8 GB of memory, opening this single utility forces the system to surrender nearly twenty percent of its total capacity, triggering aggressive paging file usage.
Adding insult to injury, the development team integrated sponsored ad placement directly inside the weather feed, disguising promotional cards as normal forecast elements.
Modern software engineering has officially reached a threshold where rendering a cloud icon consumes more memory than full retro video games. System performance continues to take a back seat to aggressive web-wrapper deployment and mandatory monetized content feeds.
Source: Windows Latest
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