I was just passed this very interesting article. http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html
"What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.” Such has been the conventional wisdom surrounding the Windows/Intel (“Wintel”) duopoly since the early days of Windows 95. In practical terms, it means that performance advancements on the hardware side are quickly consumed by the ever-increasing complexity of the Windows/Office code base. Case in point: 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)." I'm not advocating that we sit and bitch about Microsoft, but think this is a useful article to show Windows users as part of the "why you might want to consider Ubuntu" arsenal. Cheers, Al.
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