{"id":797435,"date":"2026-08-01T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/797435\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T13:21:11","slug":"microsoft-wants-to-make-windows-work-better-with-8gb-of-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/797435\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wants to make Windows work better with 8GB of RAM."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted Jul 31, 2026 at 9:42 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft wants to make Windows work better with 8GB of RAM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">And that\u2019s a good thing, because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/966937\/microsoft-surface-laptop-13-inch-8gb-ram-2026-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its own 8GB Surface Laptop 13 struggles<\/a> so much that it\u2019s a tough buy. 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