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Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026
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I forsee in the future Microsoft implementing a core electron service, one electron instance that is persistant and just runs, but sandboxes every app that calls it. so instead of an electron instance per app, its just an electron instance that has sandboxed pages that are only managable by the parent process.
it would still be pretty bloaty but, since core structure should only be present in the parent process, hopefully it would be less bloaty
So your calculator window would eat only 400MB like chrome tab?