Most Windows 7 machines max out their memory – the rest of the story

Sometimes my friends write and ask why I don’t comment on certain stories here on the AskWoody site. Case in point: the ComputerWorld article from last week that claims “Most Windows 7 PCs max out their memory, resulting in performance bottlenecks.”

I took one look at the story and figured, meh, what a crock. Win7 may fill up all of your PC’s memory, but that inevitably leads to improved performance, not degraded performance. I figured, why parrot something that was obviously wrong?

Ends up that there’s more to the story.

Peter Bright at Ars Technica wrote an accurate article that refuted the claim. I didn’t bother writing about that either, because the original article was so hairbraned.

The person who wrote the CW story was sucked in by a guy whom Paul Thurrott calls “insane.” Now comes word that the guy who originally duped CW was, in fact, an InfoWorld writer, who was pimping his own software in InfoWorld articles written under a different name. Full details on Ars Technica.

Amazing how things echo around in the Windows reporting vacuum…