[Loud] bloated Office

“bloated Office”:

install the latest version of Office 2013 have exceeded 840 M package, I believe many people will wonder enough bloated bloated for Office Why continue to go? All layman’s guess is irresponsible bullying, let us hear from the Office of the Microsoft employees (anonymously answer) in Quora first-line reports:

First, there is a premise, only a few lines of code you can not do anything, and if it is a vibrant, rich and growing ecosystem can do anything.

Office have a bunch of templates, graphics, macro processing, the default plug-in, which is a huge project.

Office (born in 1989) has more than twenty-year-old friends. Since the Office is well design and architecture, the old code base still preserved, and each time adding new features is bound to increase code base.

Office on those features good to be true, the new version eliminates a lot of bug. Office did not have a profound understanding of many features that are direct competitors who failed the most important reason.

Office installation using only the Windows API, without the need for third-party code environment, and the amount of light LibreOffice body requires Java.

permits and code obfuscation is one reason. In order to prevent hackers have administrator privileges, Office but also is designed to be sufficient to resist the attack, which will increase its bloated. Office also adapt to strange hardware and software configuration, to avoid those stupid Registry Cleaner changes.

Office has 40 languages, require security checks, as well as hundreds of unknown things to deal with.

All this requires code to complete.