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more space is required because with technoledgy getting better and better, programs will have higher graphics and require more resources and harddrive space. back when computers came out, my parents thought they'd never use up their 10 KB harddrive. and games used to come on 4 floppies.; everything is increasing in size and in awsomeness. i got a game called tribes recently, it isnt that great, and its fairly short, but it still take up 5 gigs of harddrive space.

Microsoft announced that the release of Longhorn will be largly due on hardware increases. they hope that when it comes out no computer will be running with less than a tb of HD and noless than 1-1.5 gigs of ram. seems off for the regular computer but just wait. as tech becomes more and more abundant, the price goes down.