What software would you say is better?
In the first place, my post clearly isolated the comment of yours that I was replying to:
"I could do as much, just about as fast on my 7mhz Amiga 500 as I can on my 2ghz AMD system ."
Now, sorry, but your Amiga was no where near as fast as your 2GHz AMD. You'd have to do your best to compare apples to apples if you want to make a real speed comparison but the bottom line is: No.
But there have been improvements in software over the years. Compare Windows 95 to XP, for example. Can your Amiga print a 1GB digital image? No? Is it limited by software, hardware or both? These are not even reasonable comparisons to try to make because it's apples and oranges, and some pretty dried up oranges at that.
Yes my 2 ghz AMD is faster than my 7mhz Amiga, but not in boot time, not in opening my word processor or a 10 page paper in the word processor. There are things that I can do with my current computer that I couldn't do on the Amiga, which is why I don't use the Amiga anymore, that and computers just don't last for 10 years. But the Amiga was not limited by software it was limited by hardware.
If you remember that old movie Jurassic Park, if I recall correctly those increadibly realistic animations were done on Amiga 2000 video toasters, running at like 20-30 mhz. (I know that new stuff renders much faster) But those definately were not limited by software.
I suppose that if you are only comparing current ms software to previous ms software then yes software has gotten better, but since I have experienced software not done by ms, I don't usually only compare ms software to other ms software.