windows vista

[Jun aka Pekto]

reason for the smaller memory requirements ng XP e dahil based ang code nya sa Windows 2000 which is a client OS...

Windows Vista was based on Windows Server 2003... kaya malaki ang memory requirements kasi its as if your running server code....

Pero sumatutal... bloatware pa rin sya... why cant Microsoft trim down their OSes... e sa laki ng market share nila they can stop supporting legacy apps when they want to....

That's because MS isn't Apple who often forces people to upgrade both hardware (in the form of a new Mac) and software or else risk being left behind. MS will eventually head that way too. But as one who still uses fairly old software, I appreciate the compatibility with legacy opps.

Once hardware is so fast that even emulators run legacy apps at full speed, then MS can do as Apple do.

I wasn't too happy either when OSX first came out in 2001. XP when it came out and Vista now is loads better than OSX was at first retail release.