Am 27.12.2015 um 18:34 schrieb Cousin Ricky:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> Am 27.12.2015 um 15:42 schrieb Cousin Ricky:
>>> Sven Littkowski <jam### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>>>>  Also, my free hard drive
>>>> space shrinks down each time.
>>>
>>> Micro$haft appears to assume that we all have unlimited storage.
>>
>> We're talking about software intended for developers there, not for "us
>> all".
> 
> Developer tools or not, Micro$haft software consumes storage, and its documents
> consume storage,

... as does every piece of software, and every document...

> in ever increasing amounts.

... as is also the case with virtually every other software company out
there. Software accumulates features, and features don't come for free
in terms of memory requirements.


> Back in the '90s, my job required
> us to give brief weekly reports, and we discovered that our two-sentence
> documents were 50 KB.  Turns out that M$ Word's "quick save" feature just
> appended your edits to the end of the document, so it just kept growing no
> matter what.

That's what made the quick-save feature so quick.
Don't say MS Office didn't give you a choice to choose between size and
speed, because it did.

> And their HTML converter produced documents with 15 times as much
> markup as actual content.

I give you that, but it's not like MS was the only company with crappy
HTML generators.


> I don't know is this is still true,

Now that surely is a good starting position for claiming /anything/
about Microsoft...


> But more recently, I learned that their system updates leave
> the old code behind indefinitely, causing the OS to grow by gigabytes over the
> years.

That's because this gives you the possibility to roll back system
updates. A pretty nice feature when updates are installed automatically.
I actually needed this once.

Here's a small hint for you: The windows hard disk space cleanup tool
does come with an option to ditch that old code.


I'm not saying Microsoft is producing the greatest software out there
ever. There certainly is a lot to complain about. But this started off
about Microsoft's Visual Studio, and I dare say that MS is doing an
amazingly good job on /that/ product line -- not only compared to their
other products, but even compared to competitors' tools.

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