Around a decade ago it seemed like a safe bet that personal computers would keep getting faster processors, more storage space, and other beefed up hardware. So when Microsoft released new versions of its operating systems, the system requirements tended to be higher than those for previous versions. These days there are plenty of powerful […]
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Microsoft shrank the Windows 10 footprint to free up space on cheap tablets, notebooks
24 Comments on Microsoft shrank the Windows 10 footprint to free up space on cheap tablets, notebooksIf you have a cheap Windows 8.1 tablet with just 16GB or 32GB of storage you might notice something odd when you upgrade to Windows 10 later this year: according to Microsoft, you should have more free space. That’s because the company has done two big things to make its operating system’s footprint smaller. Compression […]
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WIMBoot frees up space for Windows tablets with 32GB of storage or less
As part of an effort to enable Windows software to run on inexpensive tablets with as little as 16GB of storage, Microsoft added a new feature to Windows 8.1 that allows installations to take up as little as 3GB of disk space — or less than half of what the software would usually require. The […]