{"id":201,"date":"2002-04-07T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2002-04-07T00:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2002-04-07T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2002-04-07T00:03:22","slug":"20020407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2002\/04\/07\/20020407\/","title":{"rendered":"2002\/04\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whenever I start to read a review for a new “bloat-free” MS Office competitor, I know what the script is going to be:<\/P>

  1. Office is overpriced and “bloated” with too many features that you “don’t need”<\/LI>
  2. Luckily, <company X> made a smaller leaner one without all the bloat<\/LI>
  3. But I’m never going to use it, because it doesn’t have <insert my favorite feature> or word count.<\/LI><\/OL>

    It’s actually quite amusing how often this exact script, including the “word count” gripe, recurs.  Here’s one from 2001<\/A>. And another from 1997<\/A>.  Oh, look, it happened again<\/A>.<\/P>

    Remember, kids, the trouble with the “everyone only uses 20% of the features” myth is that everybody uses a slightly different<\/EM> 20%, and the journalist who has to review your exciting new BloatFreeWrite has been told to write a 250 word story.<\/P>

    (For review: Bloatware and the 80\/20 myth<\/A>. No matter how much it bothers you neat freaks, the market always votes for bloatware.)<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Whenever I start to read a review for a new “bloat-free” MS Office competitor, I know what the script is going to be: Office is overpriced and… Read more “2002\/04\/07”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s83KNI-20020407","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}