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Kleuskes & Moos

Is that what *you* thought I meant? How do you I didn't mean 'desk' or something equally innocent? (Okay... that is what I meant but it would have been very embarrasing if I had made that typo.)

I've seen what you talk about. My first PC was the *original* IBM PC with two 360k floppies, 64k of RAM and no HDD. My first hard-drive was a 32-meg RLL drive and at the time I never thought I would fill it up.

But you're right... apps have gotten fat and bloated because of the resources that are available in modern PC's. I once worked at a place where we sold a fairly expensive product. It crawled if there wasn't enough memory and a manager actually joked at a meeting that 'At this price we'll just include a stick of memory.'

Part of this bloat IMO is everyone is trying to out-feature every other app out there. Unless an app has eye-candy and a complete set of 460 features it's considered "less capable" than the app that does have all these features. Seems to me that in order for an app to be compebreastive it needs to have lots of features in order to get the most 'check boxes filled' in the product comparisons.

But we can't change or control all the apps in the world. We can however control our systems and throwing in a bigger disk these days to deal with the current generation of apps is relatively simple and inexpensive.