Software bloat RANT

[DrPop]

[RANT] Since when did it take programmers 170MB of crap to give me a graphics card driver?! This is getting ridiculous. [/RANT]

[Slicker]

[RANT] Since when did it take programmers 170MB of crap to give me a graphics card driver?! This is getting ridiculous. [/RANT]

I think it happened at the same time that Microsoft went from needing several 3.5" floppies to a 4GB DVD in order to install Office, or Windows, or any of their other software.

[John P. Myers]

I think it happened at the same time that Microsoft went from needing several 3.5" floppies to a 4GB DVD in order to install Office, or Windows, or any of their other software.

All of which, i might add, is compresed until nstalled. Then the 4GB becomes 12GB :/

[Mumps]

All of which, i might add, is compresed until nstalled. Then the 4GB becomes 12GB :/

Yeah, but with lovely SxS, that Windows 12GB actually consumes about 27GB.

[Gopher_FreeDC]

Yeah, but with lovely SxS, that Windows 12GB actually consumes about 27GB.

Yes but that's with all the updates and patches to patch a patch that patched another patch which patched a "feature"..