[mdlug] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

[Wolfger]

On Nov 17, 2007 9:04 AM, Brian Hurley <brian at detroitindustrial.org> wrote:

> > "Case in point: Microsoft Office 2007 which, when deployed on Windows
> > Vista, consumes over 12x as much memory and nearly 3x as much
> > processing power as the version that graced PCs just 7 short years ago
>
> I wonder how many X memory and processing power KDE or GNOME system using
> Star/Open Office has increased since 2000. Bloatware isn't a MS-only
> phenomenon.

I'm curious to know as well, but X isn't a good indicator. If the
footprint was 1MB and is now 5MB, that's a 5x increase, but nothing
compared to a change from 20MB to 40MB, which is a mere 2x.
So, anybody got some good numbers?

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