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The difference between October and May? About 16GB, says Microsoft: Windows 10 1903 will need 32GB of space

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Storage requirements embiggened in Redmond’s upcoming OS emission
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10’s voracious appetite for storage remains undiminished in the upcoming May 2019 Update (1903).
Noted by Pureinfotech, Microsoft has quietly updated the minimum storage requirements for the OS from 16GB for 32-bit versions and 20GB for 64-bit to 32GB. Notably, the Windows 10 IoT Enterprise storage requirements remain at 16GB and 20GB for 32 and 64-bit versions respectively.
Minimum RAM requirements remain 1GB for 32-bit Windows 10 and 2GB for the 64-bit version. The minimum processor speed is also unchanged at 1GHz.
While the majority of Windows 10 machines enjoy a bit more than 16GB of storage nowadays, there were a good few tablets rocking less than 32GB back in the days when Microsoft was pitching the OS as touch-first with Windows 8 and 8.

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