Stevieb

I think you are confusing "efficiency" with more facilities.

I also agree that most windows apps upgrades give more facilities to the app concerned, as well as bug fixes and fine tuning. However, all these extras require more disk space and more processing power. Plus, as you may or may not know, most of the coding for the previous version of the app is left in the new version. That's why most windows apps require more CPU power, i.e. because the CPU has to plow through old coding to get to the relevant new code.

The rational behind this is that programmers time is more costly than either RAM memory or HD space. Therefore, windows programmers, on the whole, do not strip out the old redundant coding for new versions of their apps.

However, that is not to say that all windows programmers and software companies adopt the same policy because there are some tight and neatly written windows apps that don't demand a lot of PC resources. But in the main, windows apps get bigger and more resource intensive with every new version.




UK Bob