<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I see it a lot on my job. A company will make a development decision that will cost their clients on computing resource overhead to make it "easier" to support.<br><br>I started programming in the days of the 286 and the 8088 pc bit slice and to have fast code you had to manage memory and know the architecture you were working with and use good programming techniques. <br><br>Microsoft and other companies are looking to make development cost effective in so doing it takes computing resources and the ultimate cost is passed onto the endusers THAT is not fair.<br><br>David <br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Michael
Rudas <audiotech50@gmail.com><br>To: The WFTL LUG <wftl-lug@salmar.com>; linux-user@egr.msu.edu; MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug@mdlug.org><br>Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:24:02 AM<br>Subject: [mdlug] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away<br><br>
LOL<br><br>I mention this kind of thing on a Linux list because most peoples'<br>perceptions of what a computer IS are so heavily influence by<br>Microsoft software, so it impacts us all -- and MS has become an<br>anchor, dragging all computer users to the briny depths of Trojans,<br>spyware, and wasted computer power...<br><br>"Case in point: Microsoft Office 2007 which, when deployed on Windows<br>Vista, consumes over 12x as much memory and nearly 3x as much<br>processing power as the version that graced PCs just 7 short years ago<br>(Office 2000)."<br><<a href="http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html" target="_blank">http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html</a>><br><br>~~ Mikey<br>_______________________________________________<br>mdlug mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:mdlug@mdlug.org" href="mailto:mdlug@mdlug.org">mdlug@mdlug.org</a><br><a
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