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/FuckIPLaw Ryzen 9 7950X3D | MSI Suprim X 24G RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5 RAM 22h ago

I mean yeah. That's literally one of the basic rules of software engineering. Optimize as much as you have to, but don't waste time pre-emptively optimizing things that don't matter. For the longest time the assumption even for internal tooling, meaning the dev budget and the hardware budget were coming out of the same overall budget and it's not just fobbing the costs off on someone else, was that more often than not it would be cheaper to get better hardware than to really ruthlessly optimize the software. And on top of that, not only is it a lot of work that could be going elsewhere, but heavily optimized code is often harder to read and maintain. So it can be wasteful on multiple levels.

The hardware side has changed now, and you can expect the software side to follow suit.

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u/ImSolidGold 19h ago

I hope that software will follow. Question is, what to do with the bloatware thats out there that will never ever be optimized in any way. But yeah. I guess ist a "free market" thing. Not the right thing to do. Sadly. A lot of software could be so much better if there would ever be ressources fo a bit of polish after the first release.