Microsoft Eats Humble Pie Over Office Bloat

Microsoft Australia’s Office chief today delivered a frank retrospective on how badly bloated Office had become over the years. Speaking at a briefing to journalists about Windows Vista and Office 2007, Wilkinson launched into a lengthy and frank retrospective on how Office came to be as bloated as it is today. “Little point changes to our user interface design weren’t helping the problem. The real problem was the application had increased too much in complexity.”

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