Michael Hartmann — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:09:56 GMT

From my experience complexity sometimes is due to the customer. @David: Sure, Microsoft does add features and features and therefore makes the application more complex. I’ve developed an Excel-Access based application that did one thing very good. It was simple. However, I was asked if it could do this and that. Then I did implement some additional features but not all because they would have made it a lot harder to keep it simple.

To me, keeping someting simple starts with the feature list. Reduce it as much as possible and stay focused. I’d rather have 4 apps each doing one thing perfect that 1 doing 4 things acceptable.

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