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Windows 11 Weather: RAM-Heavy Web Wrapper Lags Behind Native macOS Weather

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Source: Windows Latest
Windows 11 Weather: RAM-Heavy Web Wrapper Lags Behind Native macOS Weather
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Windows 11’s Weather app runs as a WebView2-based web wrapper and reportedly uses over 1.2GB of RAM with nine sub-processes and ads, whereas macOS Weather is a native app using about 247MB. The piece argues Microsoft should deliver a native WinUI Weather app to cut memory usage and remove ads, as part of Windows 11 performance improvements.

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