Windows 11's media player idles at 377MB doing nothing, and the experts say the real story is older and worse (extremetech.com)
By the article's own figures the modern player idles at ~377MB against ~103MB for the old one. The codecs it locks behind a fee, like HEVC, have been paid add-ons since the Windows 10 era.
The detail that stung an ex-Microsoft engineer: it's a native app with no web version that Microsoft still chose to build in HTML and JS.
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