In the process of doing a complete factory reset of my 32GB Surface RT, I tracked the available free space over the course of a couple updates to see how much space each update uses.
The Microsoft Surface RT was released October 26, 2012. I purchased my 32GB Surface on November 4th, 2012 so the refresh should have brought the Surface RT back to the original Windows RT operating system image before Microsoft applied any updates.
Right after the complete system refresh, the 32GB Surface used 7.89GB with 17GB free space. Continue reading