A new study shows that apps that Windows 11 comes with can easily occupy more than 1.5 GB on you system drive. Similar to Windows 8 and Windows 10, the latest version of the OS includes a good pack of various "modern" apps that receive updates from the Store and are built with UWP. Some of them are pretty huge.
Author: Sergey Tkachenko
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