Microsoft's Wimboot tool shrinks storage space needed to 3GB on Windows 8 tablets

[froggyboy604]

In a blog post announcing Wimboot, Microsoft claimed that it can reduce the size of the Windows operating system footprint from 7GB to 3GB, and on a machine with 16GB of internal storage, that's a big savings.

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Wow, 3GB is a small install size for Windows which previously needed 20GB of hard drive space to install Windows.

I wonder if it would be possible to shrink Windows 8 install size to 2GB by uninstalling Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Wordpad, Notepad, MS Paint, and all the other un-needed tools which computer users never or rarely use because of better alternatives.

This small 3GB Windows install size would mean it is now possible to install Windows 8 on a cheap $5 4GB SD card , and still have 1GB left over for installing small apps/programs and storing personal files.

I bet there soon will be very cheap $60-99 Windows 8 Tablets with 4-8GB of storage space for people who just need to use Windows to do Office work, web browsing, Netflix, YouTube, and other basic tasks.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

That's good to hear, it's about time they did this.