My First PC had an 80286 at 16 mhz with 1 MB of memory. Yet I was able to got more done in less time than my 2 Ghz, 4 GB system that I now have. The only real advantage with the newer system is that it can do a lot really slow.

For, I guess the last year MS has been telling me of all the advantages I would have with the newer outlook. I don’t know if it is any better or not. Once I realized how slow it is, it took me an hour and a half to go back to the previous one.

The problem is that they will not leave me alone. It was, I guess 2 years or so ago that I bought a copy of the latest and greatest MS Office. After fidling with it for 30 minutes, I told them they can keep it. The older version runs circles around the newer one. I don’t need that, though they continue to try to talk me into it.

Reminds me of the old commercial, “Try it. You’ll like it.” I’ll change the last part, “Thought my computer was going to die.”

It is a verification that all computer operating systems will expand to the size, speed and power of the system for which it is made for. You want your system to continue at or above it’s current levels, you must keep the programmers from finding out how big and fast your system is. You must convince them that it is completely slower and has less memory.

Else, you will be ever stuck in the race between the speed of the systems and the hunger of the OS.