Windows 7 Memory Usage FUD Explained
It must suck to be a Windows developer. So you already have an entire legion of misguided folk hating your work for no reason (on top of the people hating your work for legitimate reasons), and then a company comes along spreading clear misinformation about Windows' memory usage, based on that company's performance monitoring software. To make matters worse, when said company is called out on its errors, it decides to publish the usage information of an Ars Technica editor's computer. As such, it is advisable to uninstall the software in question.
Craig Barth is the CTO of Devil Mountain Software, which is a company making performance monitoring software for Windows. Users can opt to share this information with the company so they can gather data on what's going on with users' Windows machines. Barth published a blog post a few days ago, in which it was claimed that "8 in 10 Windows 7 systems monitored by the exo.performance.network are running alarmingly low on physical memory".
When I stumbled upon this news via another site (can't recall which, it was two days ago), I thought to myself that either these guys have uncovered a massive bug in Windows 7 that no one else has yet encountered, or they are just reading the "free" memory statistic in Windows 7 and be done with it.
