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According to the latest update, according to Mark Linton, head of Windows & Devices at Microsoft, the publisher has already made significant progress in both the startup times and responsiveness of Windows Hello, and further improvements are expected. Microsoft confirmed at IFA 2026 that upcoming updates for Windows 11 will include faster boot times.
The report highlights that according to Linton, Microsoft is still committed to this goal of making weaker Windows PCs run well, but he didn’t provide any specific plans or functions. At the same time, Microsoft reaffirmed its earlier promise to optimize Windows 11 for PCs with only 8GB of RAM.
Industry observers note that the newest entry-level Surface models only have 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, which isn’t even enough to meet the minimum requirements of Copilot+. This renewed commitment is important because Microsoft recently halved the RAM in its own Surface laptops.
As part of the ongoing story, it’s disappointing but not surprising, as the ongoing RAM crisis has spiked prices of memory and storage, forcing firms to rethink their strategies and shift to other solutions. Even for Windows 11, a minimum of 32GB of RAM was recommended for a long time… until Microsoft quietly removed this recommendation from its support pages.
As part of the ongoing story, all we know is they’re expected to come as part of future updates. It’s not yet clear when the upcoming improvements to boot times and memory usage will be rolled out to regular Windows 11 users.
In a fresh development, further reading: Speed up Windows 11 on PCs with less RAM.
As part of the ongoing story, this article originally appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
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