gates's law

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gates's law - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Gates's Law
  
  
     "The speed of software halves every 18 months." This oft-cited law is
     an ironic comment on the tendency of software bloat to outpace the
     every-18-month doubling in hardware capacity per dollar predicted by
     Moore's Law. The reference is to Bill Gates; Microsoft is widely
     considered among the worst if not the worst of the perpetrators of
     bloat.