Have you used a recent copy of Word (eg. Word 2010) or any of the other Office software? It all opens basically instantaneously on my system, and my system is like 4 years old now. They still show the splash boxes this guy is complaining about but the splash boxes are blink-and-you-miss-it fast and then the real app is there. Less than a second from click to load of the real app.
The Adobe apps still do have more significant load times, more like 5-8ish seconds, but RAM is cheap, just load that app once and keep it open forever. Hibernate your system instead of shutting it down cold so that the apps don't have to reload from initial state when you next use them. This also makes Windows pop up very quickly (but even from cold boot modern Windows only takes like 15-ish seconds on my (again 4 year old) system), which isn't anything to complain about compared to any other desktop OS out there.
All in all, I'm in the group of people very confused about this post. I'm historically someone who absolutely hated long load times, but it isn't something I've worried about for any app or OS I use in years now.
The Adobe apps still do have more significant load times, more like 5-8ish seconds, but RAM is cheap, just load that app once and keep it open forever. Hibernate your system instead of shutting it down cold so that the apps don't have to reload from initial state when you next use them. This also makes Windows pop up very quickly (but even from cold boot modern Windows only takes like 15-ish seconds on my (again 4 year old) system), which isn't anything to complain about compared to any other desktop OS out there.
All in all, I'm in the group of people very confused about this post. I'm historically someone who absolutely hated long load times, but it isn't something I've worried about for any app or OS I use in years now.