On 3/3/2019 10:29 PM, Bill in Co wrote:
Mike wrote:
On 3/3/2019 9:21 AM, Char Jackson wrote:
I agree with all of that last paragraph, and I apply it to a program
that has feature-bloat. When a program is feature-bloated, it'll have
endless menus and submenus, with tons of keyboard shortcuts that make no
sense, and a GUI that has a hard time showing me what I need to know.
There are different kinds of bloat, but that's the kind of bloat that I
object to. Not disk space.

I believe that you're technically correct.
Problem is not technical.
Developers maximize profit.
Profit may be money or street cred or whatever turns them on.
You 'profit' by being the bestest to the mostest.
If a competitor has a feature that people want, you MUST add it.
And you can't remove features that most no longer want or need.
The result it bloat.
The landscape changes FAST! Shortest development time is far more
effective than smallest code.

Be glad that computers have increased many orders of magnitude in
capability.
If you really care about it, stick with an old version you like.
I use MSOffice 2000.

Same here!! But I'm surprised, given what you've been saying.

IIRC, Office 2000 was the last version that didn't require activation.
I do a lot of hardware/OS swaps and not having to reactivate office
was a benefit. Apparently, there's some unspecified limit on how
many times you can do that before the key gets blacklisted.

I've never had any need for anything it can't do. I've only encountered
docx a few times and there are ways to read it.
Actually,
Office 2003 would have been ok, too. It went to pot with Office 2007 and
its sequels.

Sad to hear that. I have several copies of 2007 that I've never tried.
I thought I had a 2013, but can't find it.
And that stupid ribbon.
I thought you could eliminate the ribbon.