Last week my employer’s IS dept added some new “administrative software”. Net result, we now long to get HOME to our 56K dialups, because it’s FASTER than the T1s at work.
Every major office software upgrade adds 1 or 2 functions I like, takes away 3 or 4, is 30% bigger, and slighly SLOWER.
I’ve owned an IMB compatible since 1985, and other than image processing (which, to be fair they weren’t designed for in the first place) their performance hasn’t noticeably improved.
Why? Because the fucking SOFTWARE makers INSIST on using EVERY clock tick and every single bit of memory to do MORE fru fru pointless stuff.
Take a fuckin’ BREAK, kids. Howbout in your next upgrade, you JUST fix bugs, or you compact down your code to make it quicker, and SMALLER. How bout advertising, “Uses 15% less drive space, and loads 30% faster”. If I liked the program, I’d buy the upgrade if without a SINGLE “NEW” “capability”.
The hardware folks seem to be doing their jobs. I really have ne complaints against THEM.
SOFWARE WRITERS, LISTEN UP! Smaller’s Better! Add some new thing LATER, once you get the old stuff tuned and hoppin!
Don’t get me started on not having access to a Command Line at work. It would break my heart.