[dayvigo]

> The hardware I have sitting on my desk is vastly more powerful that what I was rocking 10-20 years ago, but the user experience seems about the same.

Not even.

It used to be that when you clicked a button, things happened immediately, instead of a few seconds later as everything freezes up. Text could be entered into fields without inputs getting dropped or playing catch-up. A mysterious unkillable service wouldn't randomly decide to peg your core several times a day. This was all the case even as late as Windows 7.

[pixl97]

At the same time it was also that you typed 9 characters in an 8 characters field and you p0wn3e the application.

>Text could be entered into fields without inputs getting dropped or playing catch-up

This has been a complaint since the DOS days that has always been around from my experience. I'm pretty sure it's been industry standard from its inception that most large software providers make the software just fast enough the users don't give up and that's it.

Take something like notepad in opening files. Large files take forever. Yet I can pop open notepad++ from some random small team and it opens the same file quickly.