Desperate attempt or marketing genius? Microsoft's Project Zenith is a confusing attempt to get those who can afford an expensive PC to buy one
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A Windows 11 dev configuration that assumes 64GB RAM bakes AI-era hardware expectations into the OS, not just the cloud. If your developer machines are still specced for pre-AI workloads, expect them to become the bottleneck long before your cluster does.
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