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Don't worry, Microsoft excels at absorbing hardware improvements as bloat in their software.


From wikipedia:

> Wirth's law is an adage on computer performance which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.

> "The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure all software ills. However, a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law


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