I work at a place which offers a well-known operating system and also sells hardware which runs said OS. This is exactly what we have done, because the hardware releases this year have had to come with a quarter less memory. There is an internal effort to reduce memory consumption by a quarter at all levels of the platform, from the kernel, to the drivers and user-mode libraries, to the toolkits and user-mode applications. This has been remarkably successful.
I work at a place which offers a well-known operating system and also sells hardware which runs said OS. This is exactly what we have done, because the hardware releases this year have had to come with a quarter less memory. There is an internal effort to reduce memory consumption by a quarter at all levels of the platform, from the kernel, to the drivers and user-mode libraries, to the toolkits and user-mode applications. This has been remarkably successful.