Windows 11 default desktop Chat/Teams widgets are Edge web views that eat up hundreds of MB of memory: https://archive.is/pyvEO
Edge also preloads in the background even if it's not the default browser: https://archive.md/AAjz4
Both links also detail how to disable these "features."
Absolutely.
In the race to the bottom to allow billions of pajeet programmers to substitute for quality Euro & Asian engineers, we got applications running webpages inside of virtual machines inside of webpages inside of virtual machines.
Imagine if we could calculate the waste caused by refusing to pay an American a decent salary and choosing to offload that cost onto the hundreds of millions of PCs out there instead.
My work laptop i5 (quad core) is absolutely crushed by all the garbage. Still on Win10 for work, but I paid $20 to upgrade the RAM to 16 GB myself (added a 2nd 8 GB stick) a while back, I don't know how people survive with 8. Splunkd is probably the worst.
I don't want to open word docs in Teams thank you, open in app, Are you sure you want to open in app?