ozmanjusri's Journal: Microsoft: The Great Moore's Law Compensator

We all know each iteration of Windows and Office demands more hardware than previous versions, and most of us are are familiar with Moore's Law, but how closely do Microsoft's increased demands match hardware improvements?

The guys at Xpnet research have charted the performance of each generation of Microsoft's OS and productivity suite against their hardware demands.

The results? It will be no surprise to anyone that hardware is not keeping up. Even on modern hardware, the Vista/Office 2007 combination is significantly more sluggish than its predecessors.

Naturally... any MFC based OS can't be fixed

[CodeShark]

Because the wizards of Redmond aren't very good at memory management. So each and every revision of the M$ code base increases the bloat factor and memory management by so much that I can't even fathom a way out.

I remember running multi-session video type stuff on versions of the Amigo OS, BeOS, etc. that Windows can't even touch now with 10-50x faster hardware, and my wife's desktop (in about 2.X gigahertz consumer machine range) is so pitifully slow under XP that I just about can't stand to use it.

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[ozmanjusri]

Yep, I still have my original Amiga 1000, as well as the A2000/040/VLab Motion setup I first built my business on. I start them up every so often just to remind myself how responsive those little machines feel.

As far as modern OS's go, there's not much out there for people who want a light, responsive system. It's a shame there's no-one trying to to do what BeOS attempted back then in the '90s. I reckon they'd get a lot better welcome now.