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What?

Here's what I read, from someone who works at Microsoft:

[T]he design was to use more memory on purpose to speed things up, but never unbounded — we requset [sic] the available memory and operate within that leaving at least 50M of physical memory.

This is what happens, right? So I don't see how the article is wrong. I also don't see how this is a problem for anyone.

"When recovering your disk from catastrophic failure, Windows uses extra memory to make the recovery go as quickly as possible." OH NOES!!!11!!



Note that this isn't just "someone who works at Microsoft." Sinofsky is the president of the Windows division: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ssinofsky/


Right. But two lines later, MS is now testing for the reproduction of the "bug"


No, they're testing for reproduction of the bluescreen crash that someone attributed (without a dump, or even a screenshot) to the memory usage of chkdsk.




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