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Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth – Joel on Software

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CEO , News Version 5.0 of Microsoft’s flagship spreadsheet program Excel came out in 1993. It was positively huge : it required a whole 15 megabytes of hard drive space. In those days we could still remember our first 20 MB PC hard drives (around 1985) and so 15 MB sure seemed like a lot. By the time Excel 2000 came out, it required a whopping 146 MB … almost a tenfold increase! Dang those sloppy Microsoft programmers, right? Wrong. I’ll bet you think I’m going to write one of those boring articles you see all over the net bemoaning “bloatware”. Whine whine

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