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Nick Evanson

Microsoft's current OS has been shrunk to a ridiculous 100MB in size, but only by getting rid of windows from Windows

Remember when we reported on how the developers of Tiny11, NTDEV, had managed to pack the installation package for Windows 11 down to just 2GB? Well, the same folks have gone one, no, many steps further by making a version of Microsoft's bulky OS that's just 100MB in size. Yes, you read that right, it's twenty times smaller. They had to get pretty drastic with the code scalpel, though, removing the main thing that gives Windows its name: Goodbye GUI and hello to a text-only Win11.

News of NTDEV's achievement was posted on X a few days ago (via Tom's Hardware), though it's not something you'll be able to play around with yourself, unfortunately. If you check out the video of it in action above, you'd be forgiven in thinking that this is just the command prompt in normal Windows, albeit running very slowly.

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