Is it my imagination or has software that used to take up little of our precious computer memory suddenly spawned into giant memory hungry monsters?

One of the biggest culprits I have seen through the years has been Yahoo messenger and ICQ. I have found them so bad that I eventually ended up removing them from my machine why do they need to take up 55megs of memory each when Google Talk only takes up 16meg? I remember when these programs would load instantly and only take up about 10meg if that!. I just can't understand what else they could have put into these programs to make them so chunky, half the features you will probably never use. One of my other pet hates is how long Adobe Acrobat Reader takes to load? Why does it have to load just about every single plugin under the sun wait about 3 minutes and then ask you if you would like to upgrade it before you get to read the PDF document you clicked on from an Internet site! That is so annoying so much so I decided to install an older version of Acrobat that didn't do it. I think as memory starts to become cheaper (and it already has) companies will start minding less about how much memory their programs take up on your machine.

Tags: Computer Memory