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My experience with Microsoft Office and such is that over-featured software becomes a real issue, but useful features are, well, useful.

Many software developers think they have to add more to make it better. Thus, their product(s) become glutware.

I have uninstalled many for that very reason. I also get mad when they take out some feature(s), as those are usually the ones I used.

One example: My current XP firewall is about 7 meg. The newest version from the same company is over 35 meg.

I have dropped several virus programs for the same reason -- they become so glutted with unwanted features that they slow the computer to a crawl.

I just recently tried out Avast's version 6 which I had to uninstall. The version 6 has a built-in sandbox program which conflicts with an independent program called Sandboxie. Even turned off, the Avast sandbox causes Sandboxie to not work. I have used Sandboxie for years and would drop Avast before I drop Sandboxie.

The other thing is software that’s constantly ‘on’, communicating on the Internet, and taking up too many resources. My Lexmark All-In-One software is like that—never anything else from Lexmark for me!