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There's a good report/study about the complexity of Microsoft Word floating around somewhere. It was something like: - almost everybody only uses about 20% of

There's a good report/study about the complexity of Microsoft Word floating around somewhere. It was something like: - almost everybody only uses about 20% of the features of Word - everybody's 20% is different, but - ~80% of the 20% is common to most users. - on the other hand, the remaining 20% of the 20% is widely distributed and covers basically all of the product. So if you made a version of Word with 16% of its feature set you would almost make everybody happy. But really, nobody would be happy. There's no small feature set that makes most people happy.

uticus 1y ago
Yeah but MS Word is also designed with the guidance of an army of accountants and corporate shareholders. Your study plays into that, but there's a much bigger picture when you talk about analyzing how any product came to be that has MS as a prefix.
ashtakeaway 1y ago
Kind of like how the author likely knows about the report and wanted to make a blog post about it without saying anything about or citing the report itself. IT seems like it but 80/20 can be found in lots of places, just like 60/40 can.