Microsoft wants native apps on Windows 11, but it just praised WhatsApp’s web wrapper, which still hits 1.5GB of RAM in a single chat

Pavan Davuluri credited Windows platform work for a double digit memory improvement in WhatsApp, without sharing a single figure. I retested the updated app on my PC. It idled under 500MB and launched a bit faster, but loading chats took 19 seconds and scrolling pushed it to about 1.5GB. The post Microsoft wants nativ…