-=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT: On Internet Radio........
- From: "Larry Southerland"<larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:46:37 -0400
It is just more of the M$ treadmill: M$ develops and releases a new,
bloated, inadequately-tested OS that has vastly-increased system
requirements (OS footprint on hard drive and memory requirements). System
builders (e.g., Gateway, Dell, etc.) release "budget" systems with RAM
adequate to boot the system, but with insufficient to perform tasks "in the
real world." After loading new apps often required by the upgraded OS,
endusers then complain that the systems are slow, barely faster than the
systems that they replaced. In effect, hard drives get bigger and CPUs get
faster, but OSes and apps also grow in size and system requirements almost
as quickly (if not more-so). The net result? Not so much of an
improvement. (Admittedly, the manufacturers are partly to blame for selling
inadequately-powered systems for the new version of the OSes, but M$ bears
part of the blame for bloatware and also vastly understating the "real
world" requirements of their products (OSes, Office Suites, etc.).)
If you doubt what I'm saying, think about the "footprint" of Dos, Windows
3.x, Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K (1 GB of footprint and 256 Megs of RAM (Real
World: 512 Megs to 1 GB), WinXP (2 GB of footprint and 512 MB of RAM (Real
World: 1 to 2 GBs of RAM) and Vista (8 to 16 GB of footprint (depending on
version) and 2 GB of RAM (Real World: 4 GB of RAM).... One might think of
Window's growth as the "flip side" (or a corollary) of "Moore's Law." ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of don101
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:24 PM
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT: On Internet Radio........
It's a good thing you never asked me.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:00 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT: On Internet Radio........
> Larry,
> I once asked everyone's opinion of Windows ME. I'm still waiting for a
> reply. ;}
>
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