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  • M Member 96

    What word or phrase would describe the process or the resulting software that has features added to constantly over time resulting in a lot of features that could be refactored into less but more elegant and simple features. I really don't know how to describe it, but I'm thinking of software that is very well supported and when users make suggestions that make sense they are added quickly as new features, but there comes a point when there are so many new features that if you take a step back and look at it could be consolidated into a simple set of features that accomplish the same task. Damn. That's why I need a word, I can't describe it without using dozens of words.

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    snafu

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    I may be crazy
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    • M Member 96

      What word or phrase would describe the process or the resulting software that has features added to constantly over time resulting in a lot of features that could be refactored into less but more elegant and simple features. I really don't know how to describe it, but I'm thinking of software that is very well supported and when users make suggestions that make sense they are added quickly as new features, but there comes a point when there are so many new features that if you take a step back and look at it could be consolidated into a simple set of features that accomplish the same task. Damn. That's why I need a word, I can't describe it without using dozens of words.

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      Binary Boy
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      Bloated? Featuritis?

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      • M Member 96

        What word or phrase would describe the process or the resulting software that has features added to constantly over time resulting in a lot of features that could be refactored into less but more elegant and simple features. I really don't know how to describe it, but I'm thinking of software that is very well supported and when users make suggestions that make sense they are added quickly as new features, but there comes a point when there are so many new features that if you take a step back and look at it could be consolidated into a simple set of features that accomplish the same task. Damn. That's why I need a word, I can't describe it without using dozens of words.

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        brianwelsch
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        It has outgrown its design.

        BW

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        • M Member 96

          What word or phrase would describe the process or the resulting software that has features added to constantly over time resulting in a lot of features that could be refactored into less but more elegant and simple features. I really don't know how to describe it, but I'm thinking of software that is very well supported and when users make suggestions that make sense they are added quickly as new features, but there comes a point when there are so many new features that if you take a step back and look at it could be consolidated into a simple set of features that accomplish the same task. Damn. That's why I need a word, I can't describe it without using dozens of words.

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          Marc Clifton
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          John Cardinal wrote:

          What word or phrase would describe the process or the resulting software that has features added to constantly over time

          "Feature-creep". As in, creeping, slowly crawling, but moving relentlessly towards chaos. As opposed to "creeping out", disguisting, horrifying, things you do on Holloween to scare the ghosts and yourself. Though, feature creep results in some really creeped out code. Marc

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          • M Member 96

            What word or phrase would describe the process or the resulting software that has features added to constantly over time resulting in a lot of features that could be refactored into less but more elegant and simple features. I really don't know how to describe it, but I'm thinking of software that is very well supported and when users make suggestions that make sense they are added quickly as new features, but there comes a point when there are so many new features that if you take a step back and look at it could be consolidated into a simple set of features that accomplish the same task. Damn. That's why I need a word, I can't describe it without using dozens of words.

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            Dave Kreskowiak
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            Yeah, it's called "Microsoft Word".

            Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

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            • M Michael P Butler

              John Cardinal wrote:

              I really don't know how to describe it, but I'm thinking of software that is very well supported and when users make suggestions that make sense they are added quickly as new features, but there comes a point when there are so many new features that if you take a step back and look at it could be consolidated into a simple set of features that accomplish the same task.

              At least in Office 12, they've simplified how to achieve tasks that were hard to use in previous versions.

              Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]

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              Christian Graus
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              Yeah, now the controls are so hard to find, you're not burdened with knowing it has stuff that it can do, if you only knew how it worked.

              Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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              • M Member 96

                What word or phrase would describe the process or the resulting software that has features added to constantly over time resulting in a lot of features that could be refactored into less but more elegant and simple features. I really don't know how to describe it, but I'm thinking of software that is very well supported and when users make suggestions that make sense they are added quickly as new features, but there comes a point when there are so many new features that if you take a step back and look at it could be consolidated into a simple set of features that accomplish the same task. Damn. That's why I need a word, I can't describe it without using dozens of words.

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                Roger Wright
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                Two words - Windows Update.

                "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

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                • C Christian Graus

                  Yeah, now the controls are so hard to find, you're not burdened with knowing it has stuff that it can do, if you only knew how it worked.

                  Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog

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                  Dan Neely
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                  I've used excel07 a bit at home. The ribbon just works. THe only thing that I hate is the chart wizard, but it appears to be the same nonfunctionality of previous versions. Typing cell ranges in for each data set, ranges for the axis, lables for each line, etc in Lotus123 for dos is so insanely easier than the select the data cells and pray the wizard guesses everything else right automagically model in excel that I can't understand how they've gone through so many releases and not gotten it right.

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                  • M Member 96

                    What word or phrase would describe the process or the resulting software that has features added to constantly over time resulting in a lot of features that could be refactored into less but more elegant and simple features. I really don't know how to describe it, but I'm thinking of software that is very well supported and when users make suggestions that make sense they are added quickly as new features, but there comes a point when there are so many new features that if you take a step back and look at it could be consolidated into a simple set of features that accomplish the same task. Damn. That's why I need a word, I can't describe it without using dozens of words.

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                    led mike
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                    VisualBasic

                    led mike

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                    • M Member 96

                      What word or phrase would describe the process or the resulting software that has features added to constantly over time resulting in a lot of features that could be refactored into less but more elegant and simple features. I really don't know how to describe it, but I'm thinking of software that is very well supported and when users make suggestions that make sense they are added quickly as new features, but there comes a point when there are so many new features that if you take a step back and look at it could be consolidated into a simple set of features that accomplish the same task. Damn. That's why I need a word, I can't describe it without using dozens of words.

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                      Ashley van Gerven
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                      Feature-tuning Feature-factoring Feature-merging Feature-optimising Simplication

                      "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza

                      ~ Web SQL Utility - asp.net app to query Access, SQL server, MySQL. Stores history, favourites.

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                      • M Member 96

                        What word or phrase would describe the process or the resulting software that has features added to constantly over time resulting in a lot of features that could be refactored into less but more elegant and simple features. I really don't know how to describe it, but I'm thinking of software that is very well supported and when users make suggestions that make sense they are added quickly as new features, but there comes a point when there are so many new features that if you take a step back and look at it could be consolidated into a simple set of features that accomplish the same task. Damn. That's why I need a word, I can't describe it without using dozens of words.

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                        Russell Morris
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                        necrotizing featuritis

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                          necrotizing featuritis

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                          :laugh: Ok, that's a very good one!

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                          • M Member 96

                            What word or phrase would describe the process or the resulting software that has features added to constantly over time resulting in a lot of features that could be refactored into less but more elegant and simple features. I really don't know how to describe it, but I'm thinking of software that is very well supported and when users make suggestions that make sense they are added quickly as new features, but there comes a point when there are so many new features that if you take a step back and look at it could be consolidated into a simple set of features that accomplish the same task. Damn. That's why I need a word, I can't describe it without using dozens of words.

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                            Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer
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                            You've had bloatware already, but that only describes the current incarnation. You're describing bloatware that could be shrunk to more rational proportions. How 'bout: Deflatableware ? Iain.

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