Why is this a bad thing? Look at the following screengrab: http://invalid.ed.ntnu.no/~jostein/qupload/files/taskman.png http://invalid.ed.ntnu.no/~jostein/qupl

Why is this a bad thing? Look at the following screengrab: http://invalid.ed.ntnu.no/~jostein/qupload/files/taskman.png http://invalid.ed.ntnu.no/~jostein/qupload/files/taskman.png My laptop is running Firefox, PuTTY, Visual Studio, parts of the Office 2010 beta and I still haven't maxed out, but I do use "massive" 2GBs of memory. Now let's look further at that: It's says 1019 MB is "cached". This means that things are buffered, ready to use, improving my machine's performance. Why should we have all this RAM if it isn't used for anything? That would be a bloody waste IMO. As the article only mentions memory usage and not what it is used for (cached isn't mentioned once), I will assume this is mostly cached data improving performance, not the opposite. In fact quite like it works in Linux: http://invalid.ed.ntnu.no/~jostein/qupload/files/top.png http://invalid.ed.ntnu.no/~jostein/qupload/files/top.png Until proven otherwise I'd say this article is entirely without merit, or that at best it proves that Windows 7 in fact results in better use of available resources.