OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 13:26 -0700, Stephen wrote:
> "Just look at Vista and Windows 7, could someone please explain why the OS
> went from 4GB in Win Xp to 11GB in Vista and Win 7 ??? without gaining and
> new usability. Sure it's got nifty graphics, but 7GB worth ?
> Really can anybody explain where the 7Gb went ?"
> 
> I know a large part of that is actually in a extracted set of cabs so
> they don't have to "get the CD" all the time for driver installs and
> updates ect or feature adds.
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I think the general intent is that disk space, like RAM is cheap and
they don't much care about wasted disk space.

My new Acer Aspire One. Windows XP SP3 w/ Open Office (MS Office Trial
version removed), AVG Free 8.0 (MacAfee Trial version removed), Acrobat
Reader, Flash, Firefox, Thunderbird weighs in at just under 10 Gb.
Fedora 10, a fairly robust install with both Gnome and KDE and a lot of
games and applications, just under 5 Gb.

Obviously on an SSHD system, space is a premium which is why all of the
Acer Aspire Ones w/ SSHD are Linux only.

Craig