[damm]

Microsoft has been pushing the requirement for the faster processor harder than any other company. Complexity of Applications; how big they are.

I remember when Office used to fit on a single CD... the whole suite

But it's seriously the unseen side of microsoft is their hardware division. If it's slow that means you should upgrade

Maybe if you paid for hotmail it would be faster

[pshyco]

I don't pay for Gmail and its faster. I had free tier of AWS and it was faster. I have i7 PC with 16 GB RAM, 4 MB Cache. That is a general configuration most developers have I suppose.