Is Your Hardware Keeping up With Your Software?

Today’s software is capable of so much more than it was even just a few years ago, and one of the biggest innovations in software development has involved the concept of integration. For software to be the most productive, it must be able to work with other programs and features. For example, Microsoft’s PowerPoint allows users to embed sound and even movie files within a presentation. However, doing so may things cause substantial slowing in the software’s response. Is this a limitation of PowerPoint, or is the hardware insufficient in providing necessary memory?

When Microsoft released Windows Vista, many users were resistant to the change. While some of the reasoning behind that pertained to Vista’s lack of intuitiveness and frequent bugs, more users balked at Vista’s system requirements. Upgrading to Vista from XP required a considerable addition of RAM, about four times as much, something that most users refused to do for an operating system that was not particularly compelling in the first place. Windows 7, by comparison, recommends double the RAM needed for Vista, but no additional hard drive space. For most non-professionally used PCs, it is far more cost-effective to replace the machine than to upgrade the OS and the necessary RAM.

As in case of using Windows, people must have to change their systems after a few years, which is of course not a cost effective way. That’s why; many people are turning towards using open source operating systems and applications because they are not only free but are most advanced and memory efficient as compared with Windows. If people face a problem in using an open source operating system or an application then they can expect to get instant support from the huge community of developers and users. Today people are more inclined towards using Linux as compared with Windows. People prefer to use Open Office as compared with Microsoft Office. Not only that but there is an increased trend among people towards using other open source applications as well like GNU Cash and FreeMind.