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Re: (OT) The giant steps down before the crash
de hummingbird 06/16/2006 11:41
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:53:19 +0800 'Man-wai Chang'
posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:
>> hhmm. I wonder if there's data available to show that the downfall
>> of a software company begins when its products become bloatware?
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>I would never understand why M$ Word was so big compared to the good old
>WordPerfect 5.1 (if not 6.0). WP 5.1 could be fitted on a 1.4M diskette
>that offers more or less the same amount of features as in Word!
Like this you mean?:
http://www.toucano.plus.com/MS-Word-latest_version.gif
In my experience, that's fairly typical for MS products.
Even installing something relatively simple from MS like a document
viewer, takes up megabytes of HDD and endless reg keys.