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> Which software exactly is functionally the same yet consumes more resources? Can you give some specific examples?

Operating systems, particularly Windows. Given fixed hardware, you cannot expect an operating system to continue working indefinitely.

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Windows is not functionally the same between branded versions. Even if the NT kernel was shared across some branded versions over time, for example, new features were added and underlying functionality were changed.

The question is how much those features were worth in terms of cost (is a feature bloat?). If you don’t have a cost constraint, then yes, you have feature diversity but the cost for any feature can be arbitrarily high.

Whyever not.

Windows 95 needed 4MB memory. Windows 7 needed 1GB. Try running Windows 10 with less than 4GB.

They all run processes, do they not?

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