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I've never had to use virtual memory

Err, if you are using a modern operating system (Windows, OS X, Linux, etc) then you are always using virtual memory, you cant address physical memory directly. The operating system takes care of all the dirty work for you like swapping and paging.

My beef is with: Apple Pages, MS Office

Don't know about Apple Pages but Office 2003 is only 228mb for the standard edition which includes: Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint. All of the programs are very powerful, come with full documentation and are programmable using VB for applications. The more recent versions of Office also support groupware and connectivity. For example one of my supervisors has Outlooks calendar system synchronised with his cellphone. Like na_th_an said, you don't just get all this stuff for free.

and the worse one: .NET!

Yeah downloading 22.4mb in this day and age is just criminal ;-). If you mean the .NET SDK, then of course its big. It comes with hundreds of precompiled classes in the class libraries, full documentation, code samples, etc.