> Software seems to perform exactly as well as it needs to and no more The cynical spin I would put on this idea is that software performs as poorly as it can

> Software seems to perform exactly as well as it needs to and no more The cynical spin I would put on this idea is that software performs as poorly as it can get away with. MSFT is feeling the need/pressure to have Office load faster, and they will try to get away with preloading it. Otherwise, there is a strong pull towards bloat that different people will try to take credit for as features even if the cumulative experience of all these "features" is actually a worse user-experience.