The Apollo space mission was launched on 64 bytes of code and ran on solid-core processors with solid-core RAM. So why does it take 8GB of RAM to play a video game or write a letter or launch a browser? Simple answer: sloppy code.
That's all we're going to get from M$, though so you might as well get used to it.
Oh, and "Unix". There, now you don't have to scream.
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