Thread: Anyone here think that Windows 8 is 'vastly superior' to iOS and Android?
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Old 09-21-2012, 01:38 PM   #36
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I do agree that the difference between an iOS or Android app and an MS one is a lot of bloat. Some of it comes from legacy code that was never replaced (or possibly never optimized to begin with), some of it is comes from features that people don't regularly use and could be relegated to plugin status, and then there's always the hidden game of DOOM in Excel '95 that might still be in the codebase.

I guess its like the difference between early and late GUIs. Early GUIs like original MacOS and GEOS were written for small memory spaces, sometimes no more than 64 or 128k, and had to not only provide a full UI but also run at least one app. A "modern" GUI needs at least 512 megs of memory, really prefers 2+ gigs, and finds ways to fill up anything beyond that.
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