This recommendation was targeted to gaming, not office work. And even for gaming, MSFT said 16GiB was good enough for most games.

Sensationalist article which doesn’t belong on HN.

benoau 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wasn't it actually talking about if you were gaming and streaming your gameplay and chatting at the same time?

	▲	inigyou 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You used to be able to do this with 2GiB.

TitaRusell a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Gaming is such a broad category. That said not even modern triple A games recommend 32 gigabyte yet.

	▲	0x1d7 a day ago \| parent [-]
		There are games which have long recommended 32GiB, but primarily simulators. DCS and MSFS 2024 are two such examples.