The size of software always expands to fill the resources

Posted by Vic Laurie
November 19, 2007

Not only does the size of the Windows operating system seem to always increase to match available resources but other software does the same. In a posting, What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away, XPNet reports on the latest version of Microsoft Office:

“What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.” Such has been the conventional wisdom surrounding the Windows/Intel (“Wintel”) duopoly since the early days of Windows 95. In practical terms, it means that performance advancements on the hardware side are quickly consumed by the ever-increasing complexity of the Windows/Office code base. 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 (Office 2000).

Computer management, Software

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