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Windows 11's Weather app reportedly uses 5x more RAM than macOS's Weather app, with ads to boot by XDA on August 9, 2026 (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 3 months ago by thingsiplay@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Windows 11 Weather app hogs about 1.2GB RAM and spawns multiple Chromium processes.

App displays ads because it wraps MSN weather in a WebView2/browser shell.

Native macOS Weather uses ~247MB with no ads; Microsoft should port to WinUI 3.

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[–] doleo@lemmy.one 3 points 3 months ago

Yup. Also, in this case and many others, the reason they disabled the feature was to force people to use their "widgets". i.e. see more ads.

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