After takin' a swig o' grog, [H]omer belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away
> [...]
>> | Microsoft Office 2007 which, when deployed on Windows Vista,
>> | consumes over 12x as much memory and nearly 3x as much processing
>> | power as the version that graced PCs just 7 short years ago (Office
>> | 2000).
>> `----
>
> 12x the memory requirements, 3x the CPU utilisation, twice the price,
> half the features, one tenth the usability, and zero point.
I like this one (link repeated as an aid to the reader):
http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html
But despite years of real-world experience with both sides of the
duopoly, few organizations have taken the time to directly quantify
what my colleagues and I at Intel used to call "The Great
Moore's Law Compensator (TGMLC)."
Windows TGMLC.
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Tux rox!
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