Hi anonymous,
Many thanks for the feedback.
I didn’t mean to imply that Microsoft hadn’t considered the 8% thing, i.e. that most people don’t use most of the features. I’m sure they did. And WordPad may well be the evidence of that.
I was just trying to highlight that software teams should proactively consider that fact too. And that maybe this is the basis for a strategy for the earlier iterations of a product’s development – business people may say that the product needs all the features – and they may be right. But general evidence is that products do not need to be that rich in functionality to attract the majority of its users.
Thanks for the feedback about the typos in my blog posts! I use Google’s Blogger platform to write my blog, which unfortunately has less than 8% of Word – perhaps even as little as 1%, and sadly not a spell check!!! I’ll go fix my typos :-)
Kelly.