[kuschku]

Roughly 20% of the space used in Windows’ exe’s and .dll’s is EXIF and similar metadata in image assets. It’s very wasteful.

They probably never tried to reduce the size.

[mmastrac]

This seems unlikely, but giving you the benefit of the doubt - is there some research on this?

[noisem4ker]

Windows is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform https://www.thurrott.com/windows/109962/windows-bloated-than...

Also previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192353

It turns out that the overall Windows bloat due to XMP tags amounts to something like 5MB.

[kuschku]

Interesting, I missed the follow up, and had only read https://www.thurrott.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Bloat-Gr...

[you_are_wrong]

This is not true, it's a much smaller percentage, negligible overall.