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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by GeorgeWBasic on Saturday June 20, 2026 @05:02PM (#48612959)
Have you heard that there's a RAM shortage?
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Saturday June 20, 2026 @05:49PM (#48613302)
Do you have telemetry about how often systems are overcommitted due to Windows Media Player memory usage? I'll bet Microsoft does.
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by fhn on Saturday June 20, 2026 @06:04PM (#48613413)
And Microsoft has incentive to force users to upgrade because their computers need more RAM, disk, and CPU
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by reaperducer on Saturday June 20, 2026 @06:05PM (#48613417)
Do you have telemetry about how often systems are overcommitted due to Windows Media Player memory usage? I'll bet Microsoft does.

Considering the way Microsoft's product line is these days, I have a hard time believing its terabytes of "telemetry" go anywhere but the Windows equivalent of /dev/null.

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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by promano on Monday June 22, 2026 @07:09AM (#48628595)
I'd bet the kind of people who care about the RAM usage of their media player haven't used Windows Media Player in a decade and disable as much telemetry as they can.
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by UqWBcuFx6NV4r on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:47PM (#48614217)
Drop the snark and respond to the actual comment please.
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by GeorgeWBasic on Saturday June 20, 2026 @09:59PM (#48614969)
Nope, a comment that flippant about wasting RAM use deserves that snark. It's always been bad to do it, and it's even worse nowadays.
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Re:Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges f... by LtWorf on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:59AM (#48616676)
Ah, an alt account.
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