A Kabong attacks you, but misses!

Unfortunately, they have to outdo competitors with "features", which they
feel the customer needs (suuure we need it).. but I must agree with you.. if
it were left up to the programmers, Microsoft Office would run in 512K RAM
and only use 2 Megs of HD space, and be faster, and more powerful. :)

> From: "Daniel P. Sniderman" <fuzzbone@...>
>
> I know this ought to be KA-Bonged - but I can't help but defend my
> profession... The source of bloatware can be found very simply in the
> marketing department of software companies. Bloatware is caused by adding
> feature upon feature.
>
> Programmers are assigned tasks by management. Most would be just as happy
> to work on making their code smaller and more efficient than adding a new
> feature....
>
> Slyde