You may remember that legal documents are written in such bloated circuitous terms because clerks were paid for the documents they wrote by the word, hence they used as many words as possible when they wrote their judgments; the resulting parchments were rolled and tied with red ribbons hence their works became red tape. It would seem that Bill Gates pays his code writers by the same principle—hence using 1 MB of code to accomplish a task will not do if one can find 100 MB that will do the same job. Recently I downloaded and installed Windows Media Player 11; it does a nice job, as long as you don’t wish to do anything else with your computer while it’s running. That’s fine if it’s a movie you’re watching; but listening to a CD or Web Radio while you’re working on a Word Document such as I’m doing at present or browsing the Web and reading E-mail—especially if you use MS Outlook--is out of the question.
I made the mistake of “upgrading” (?) to Internet Explorer 7—I should know better by now! Not since I was on a dial-up Internet Connection have I experienced web pages that opened at such glacial speeds. Not only that but until the pages open my browser and even my computer itself are often frozen. Not since I used Windows ME has my browser crashed as often as it has lately. Couldn’t comment as to whether this new edition is more secure but it certainly isn’t more stable. Again this is yet another programme exhibiting needless bloat.
If these two programmes are exemplars of what is to come with Windows Vista; no wonder a computer will require 1 Gigabyte of memory just to run the Operating System. Whatever buildings this new system is able to leap with a single bound or however bullet-proof it may be I ask you, “Is it really worth it?”
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