User:Havarhen/List of bloated software

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This is a list of software I find to be bloatware, and also why they are listed here. If someone find this article encylopedic they are free to move it off of my user page.


Contents

[edit] Microsoft Office

This office suite is sold in way too many editions:

  • Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition
  • Microsoft Office Basic Edition
  • Microsoft Office Standard Edition
  • Microsoft Office Small Business Edition
  • Microsoft Office Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Office Professional Enterprise Edition

[edit] Microsoft Word

  • Animated text frame: Who needs a animated frame around their textual content?? D'oh! That's something you can't see on the printed paper.

[edit] Microsoft Powerpoint

This program has way to many effects, it's a presentation maker, not a film editor! It makes some people use too much time on finding the most fancy effect, stealing time from what it's all about.

[edit] Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications

This script/macro engine has way too many functions, making it exploitable. You don't need to be able to format a harddrive from VBA! Too many viruses exploits less secure functions in this script language.

[edit] Microsoft Windows

A web browser and a media player is two programs that shouldn't be integrated into an operation system.

[edit] MSN Messenger

  • Nudge: nudging people
  • Winks: sending flashanimations
  • MSN Games: having MSN Games built into this program makes the program much heavier, there exists many online playgrounds where one could play games against each other.
  • Radio: listening to internet radio

[edit] Internet Explorer

This browser is too much integrated with the operationsystem, making it much more exploitable

[edit] ActiveX

Same as VBA

[edit] Opera browser

Sadly this good Norwegian web browser has started to become bloatware, adding all too many functions.

  • M2 Mail Client: Mail clients should not be included in the browser, that's to quite different things. This makes the mail client taking time from the real coding. Also it's not as good as many other standalone mail clients.
  • IRC Chat Client: This is another example of stuff that shouldn't be included in a web browser. Same as the M2 Mail Client, it's not as good as many other standalone IRC clients.
  • The default view one is getting after installing Opera for the first time is somewhat untidy having too much panels and toolbars open in addition to a sidebar.
  • The preferences window is also somewhat untidy, and has way too many options to chose from
    • Sounds: What's the need for having a function to play a sound when the browser starts or exits?

[edit] Netscape Browser

When the software engineers created this Mozilla Firefox based web browser, they added way too many functions and features to a lean browser.