Microsoft discloses WIN8 system details: Less resource consumption than Win7

System Resource Usage for Windows 7 SP1

System Resource Usage for Windows 8

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time October 8 morning, Microsoft's latest Windows 8 operating system will support tablets and netbooks, which means the system can use memory very efficiently. Microsoft published the details of the system's memory management on the official building Windows 8 blog in Friday.

The industry has tested the Windows 8 system on the low-end Dell Inspiron E1505 notebook, which uses 1GB of RAM and the intel® T2400 1.83GHz processor. Windows 8 starts faster than Windows 7.

Microsoft acknowledges that many users will get Windows 8 by upgrading Windows 7 and older windows, so Microsoft wants to make sure that Windows 8 runs stably on older hardware devices. Microsoft has achieved this goal.

In the official blog, Microsoft compared the memory and CPU usage of computers with the same 1GB memory when running Windows 7 SP1 and Windeows 8 developer previews. The results show that Windows 8 consumes less system resources when idle. The Windows 8 Developer Preview version has a CPU occupancy rate of 1%, memory consumption of 281MB, and Windows 7 SP1 CPU utilization of 5% and memory consumption of 404MB.

Microsoft has described in detail in its official blog how to achieve this goal. Microsoft uses a technology called "Memory consolidation." With this technology, Windows will look at the memory usage of the system, find out the same code that runs for different reasons, and then release the redundant code. In addition, Windows 8 reduces the operating system's background service and improves the way the background service works. This also makes the system performance significantly improved.

Surprisingly, the new Metro interface in Windows 8 also facilitates a drop in memory usage. When a user is using a tablet, Windows 8 will not start the operating system component for the desktop computer. Not running these components can save 23MB of memory space, and Microsoft will try to save more memory space in the future.

Microsoft has also used a number of other technologies to reduce CPU and memory usage, including smarter ways to determine when to release memory and make memory more efficient.

Industry insiders believe that this is a good trend, not only in favor of Windows 8. Microsoft may have realised that the future of the operating system should not be too large, but should be smaller and more portable. (D-Gold)