Windows 11 内置的天气应用因高内存占用和广告问题引发批评。该应用在闲置状态下内存占用超过 1.2GB，而同功能的 macOS 天气应用仅占用 246.7MB，前者为后者的约 5 倍 [1]。这款应用运行 9 个独立子进程，均采用 Chromium 进程名称，实质上是基于 WebView2 技术开发的网页套壳应用，包含 MSN 品牌广告 [1]。
微软负责原生应用开发的 Rudy Huyn 曾在今年 3 月承诺打造完全原生的 Windows 应用 [1]，但该天气应用目前暂未被列入更新计划 [1]。
Microsoft's weather application bundled with Windows 11 has drawn criticism for excessive memory consumption and integrated advertising.[1] The application uses over 1.2 GB of RAM while idle, roughly five times the memory footprint of Apple's macOS weather application, which consumes approximately 246.7 MB.[1] This performance disparity is partly attributable to the application's technical architecture: the Windows 11 weather app runs nine separate subprocesses, all bearing Chromium process names, and is fundamentally a web-based wrapper built on WebView2 rather than a native application.[1]
The Windows 11 weather application is essentially a rebranded MSN web interface packaged with the operating system.[1] The weather app has not yet been included in Microsoft's development roadmap for updates. However, Rudy Huyn, Microsoft's lead for native application development, committed in March 2024 to building fully native Windows applications, signaling potential future improvements in this area.[1]
