I got quite a few questions about portable applications from my previous post. In the vast majority of exchanges (phone, emails. smoke signals etc….) the discussion arrived to . . . why not use as many portable applications on our PCs? And the answer is . . . why not?

  1. they are (legally) free;
  2. they are compact and small, use very little hard drive space, and very little resources;
  3. they don’t mess with the windows registry, you want to get rid of them, just delete the entire directory;
  4. they may not be fully featured like their bigger brothers, or their fancy distant cousins, but . . . 99.99% of knowledge workers do not use the advance features, and if they do, they can probably live without.

Post Script Bonus: the next level of simplicity is virtualization of computing, try writely, you’ll become addicted to it.