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in 19XX 2 c-64 computers were all that was required to send a rocket to the moon . In 1998 a Pentium 400 is required to run Office98. ... Something has gone horribly wrong.
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Until a few months ago my mom was running Windows98 on a pentium 60 with 64 megabytes of RAM. Office ran just fine. We only upgraded because the CPU rendering HTML was an issue with the 40 dollar a month cable service.
The desktop I write this on is a pentium III 450 and I still play online videogames with this box. In fact I play Ravenshield on it, a 3d game which was released only a year ago. Your going to have to explain to me what this is about bloated software. Because I really don't see it.
In fact I see software getting better. I think IE6 was better then the previous versions. It loads faster on my 450 and can load huge pages with 100's of pics without choking up my system and making it non-responsive. It's a shame they stopped developing IE and never added tabbed browsing.
If I had to complain about any specific app I would say bit torrent, it's an incredible CPU hog and I blame it on being written in python.
Sorry but we have to step into this debate until we hash it out. I don't think the grass is greener on the otherside. I think it's darn green right here.