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Microsoft releases Windows 11 Insider Preview, attempts to defend labyrinth of hardware requirements

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> Does anyone have a breakdown of the stuff taking up 62GB?

Crappy programming and lack of optimization can turn any small footprint into a huge one.

Heck, some time in the distant past I was given a floppy disk booting a full QNX OS, with a full graphical user interface, a fully functional network stack, a text editor and a web browser - All that off a single 1.44 MB floppy! I know it's not as simple as that, but one would be very tempted to think that everything beyond 1.5 MB is pure bloat...

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