>>Why are Microsoft Products getting slower with each release???
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>>I just installed Office 2007, and it takes forever for an email to display
>>when I click on it, and that's AFTER it's already been downloaded.
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>>When I launch Word, it takes forever for it to open.
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>>SQL 2005 takes forever for it to open AND to close.
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>>I remember when these products were fast.
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>>What happened???
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>Microsoft Products are feature rich! :)
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>The hardware just does not keep up with the software. The software company drives the hardware. So one chases the other and we all get to spend more money to help keep the economy going. :)
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>I was happy in 1981 with WordStar and 64K of RAM on my S-100 bus computer. I could do everything I wanted a word processor to do with WordStar.

MS buys their developers the best and fastest computer they can find. The developer then developer to the comfort level of those machines. The deploy the software to us, who much slower machine. Therefore it is really an illusion, the software is not slow, it is the machine. ;)