Windows Bloat – Fatter and Slower as the Years Pass

Here’s an interesting article discussing the Windows-Intel connection as it has progressed over the years: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/14/16TC-winoffice-performance_1.html As memory and processor speed have increased over the years, Microsoft has bloated out its OS and tools accordingly to the point that performance has gotten worse:

“The net result is that, surprise, Vista and Office 2007 on today’s state-of-the-art hardware delivers throughput that’s still only 22 percent slower than Windows XP and Office 2003 on the previous generation of state-of-the-art hardware. In other words, the hardware gets faster, the code base gets fatter, and the user experience, as measured in terms of application response times and overall execution throughput, remains relatively intact. The Great Moore’s Law Compensator is vindicated.”