[SW6906]

With 60G of hard drive space for less than $200 and 512 MB of RAM for about $100, who cares how large it is? I recently read they created a 180G hard drive. Storage is cheap! As long as a reasonably fast speed is still there (I don't recall ever waiting for the operating system software to perform any operation), who cares how big the code is?

[SW6906]

Let me correct that: I do wait about a minute or so for W2K to start up, but from then on, it's lightning fast (1.33G processor, 512MB RAM!).

[damnlimey]

Bloatware could well be what is driving the rapid advance of todays hardware,
more resource hungry software calls for bigger faster hardware which in turn
leaves the door open for developers to add more bells and whistles to their
products and on and on ad infitum.
Hey,who knows ,maybe it's a good thing ;^)

[VoiceOfBruck]

With 60G of hard drive space for less than $200 and 512 MB of RAM for about $100, who cares how large it is?

I do. Smaller is better.

Every line of code has a finite chance of having a defect. Every defect has a finite chance of remaining undetected in the released product. Every released defect has a finite chance of causing unintended operation. But you and Mr. Gates apparently aren't too worried about that.