Resumen
In this article, the author presents his concerns regarding rapid change in the software products. The author feels that software packages have far more features and capabilities than the average user needs or wants. He could have gone on happily, using his ancient WordStar word processor, for example, if the computer on which it ran had not up and died on him. It is an interesting example: hardware wears out and breaks, but software never does. Witness all that Y2K software still running long after its programmers decided that two digit years would last the life time of the program. The author appreciates some of Microsoft Word's new features and the newer breed of packages. But, to be honest, he does not think he had missed those features much. There is a reason for the software vendors engaging in rampant features that results in fatware. The reason is to find tricks to convince shoppers they need the new, to eschew the old. There was time when some of changes made sense. The author feels that people might be having mixed feeling for his views.