Instead of “featuritis” let’s have simplicity
In order to keep selling more and more stuff, the computer industry keeps adding features. Microsoft piles them into Windows and Office and the rest of the industry does likewise. Most of these are never used by most consumers but everything continues to get more and more bloated in the effort to make you buy the newest new thing. The computer industry should take a lesson from the video recorder described by David Pogue. By keeping things to a minimum, a simplified video recorder has captured 13% of the camcorder market in a year.
Think about this: Windows 98 ran quite well on 64 MB of RAM but Vista needs 1 GB (or more).
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