Jim Henderson wrote:
> It's not a question of "so many features *I* don't need to use", but "so 
> many features that *most* users don't need to use". 

A lot of the bloat comes from features you use without knowing it.

A lot of the bloat in Windows, for example, comes from domain services, 
remote management, and so on. None of that gets used by the home user.

A lot of the bloat in Excel, for example, is including the ability to 
write macros in any .NET language and link them into the spreadsheet, 
and talking to a SQL server from your spreadsheet. Do you do that? No. 
Does the accounting department of a 10,000 person company use that? Sure 
thing.

> I don't know that 1-2-3 would be completely useless by modern standards - 
> I think a lot of tasks that people use Excel for these days aren't much 
> beyond what 1-2-3 was capable of.

99% of *my* use is exiting CSV files. I'm hardly typical either, tho.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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