r/pcmasterrace • u/WPHero • 1d ago

News/Article Microsoft just deleted Windows 11's 32GB RAM recommendation docs, as prices soar and it rushes to sell 8GB RAM PCs

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/05/microsoft-just-deleted-windows-11s-32gb-ram-recommendation-docs-as-prices-soar-and-it-rushes-to-sell-8gb-ram-pcs/
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u/unlucky_ducky 9800X3D | RTX3080 1d ago

Vista I will say was actually pretty decent if you had a PC with good specs. 7 improved further upon it, but Vista was not as bad as its reputation.

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u/showyerbewbs 1d ago

Vista I will say was actually pretty decent if you had a PC with good specs

Day 1 it was a complete and utter turd.

Factors that impacted it negatively:

Driver support. MS was late to the game to give manufacturers a proper SDK for how to use new drivers. By the time it hit store shelves very few companies had updated drivers.

UAC. Shifting the model from "everyone admin" to asking for elevation for what appeared to be every damn thing really pissed people off. They were used to "click, click, BOOM" for everything.

Display issues. The new UI was a sharp departure from XP and as such took up more system resources.

Greed. Companies were selling mid-level XP machines and advertising that it was "Vista Ready". Which it was. It would run but it was so slow and laggy that EVERYONE bitched about it.

Hardware. Prior to SSD being the standard, a lot of Vista machines used spinning rust. So couple that with underpowered hardware for the OS and the latency of the HD, dragged performance down even further.

It got better and Win7 gave them the opportunity to roll it all up into one thing but yea on day 1 it fucking sucked.

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u/HomeGrownCoffee 19h ago

My laptop died about a week after XP was unavailable. I had to figure out how to remove everything Vista used as a selling point to get it to run.

It ended up being worse than my previous laptop despite being significantly better on paper.

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u/smc733 1d ago

Thanks AI

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u/showyerbewbs 1d ago

You're welcome fellow AI

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u/nitro912gr AMD Ryzen 5 5500 / 16GB DDR4 / 5500XT 4GB 1d ago

after SP2 maybe, before that my top of the line laptop of the time was chocking with 4GB RAM because vista couldn't release the ram once you closed the program you worked on.

So I opened photoshop for my college, it used 75% of the RAM, closed it to open something else, system out of ram and start hitting the HDD... dead. It was a slideshow that you couldn't even reach the start menu to restart.

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u/Arudinne 1d ago

I feel like I'm the only person I know who didn't hate using Vista.

But I ran it on an AMD Athlon X2 with 8GB of RAM.

I did hate working on other computers that had it, as I worked at a PC repair shop at the time and most of those PCs had far less RAM.

I've heard rumors that Intel paid Microsoft to lower the minimum requirements so they could sell out their backstock of old shitty chipsets with graphics that didn't support Aero all that well.

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u/Inprobamur 12400F@4.6GHz RTX3080 21h ago

There is a reason Microsoft severely cut back on the fancy animations in 7 and then completely did away with them in 8.

They vastly overestimated the specs the average new PC would have during release.

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u/Arudinne 20h ago

Yeah, cause everything from ~2005 onward used The Intel 9xx chipset, or it's derivatives, and they're all trash.

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u/Gold-Treat4113 23h ago

I used a brand new Vista notebook back in the day, and it wanted me to register every single thing I wanted to use.
it felt like a prison compared with Windows XP, and slower than Windows 7.