Microsoft Announces Project Zenith, A Clutter-Free Windows Experience Meant To Entice Developers

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But you'll need a powerful system with 64GB of RAM to use it.

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Continuing the trend of trying to make Windows 11 suck less, Microsoft today announced Project Zenith, a new "ready-to-code distraction free Windows experience" for powerful developer hardware with 64GB of RAM and gobs of memory bandwidth. Project Zenith will first be available on AMD's Ryzen AI Halo mini-desktop at first, with more devices to follow. Clearly, the focus is on local AI development — a timely move as cloud AI token costs start to rise.

Microsoft's Windows Platform CVP Logan Ayer says Project Zenith will let developers "run 30B+ parameter models locally and unmetered." The goal, really, is to cut the crud out of Windows to create a more Linux-like experience. Ayer says Project Zenith will have tools for multiple languages and runtimes pre-installed, and Windows itself will be more developer-friendly from the get go,...

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