It's been so much better without all that security software bloat too.

The goal of the project is to eliminate software bloat from Blackbox while remaining usable.

Concerns have been expressed that Windows Vista may contain software bloat.

Critics also point out that TMP is quite large and may be experiencing software bloat.

Bullet point engineering often leads to feature creep and software bloat but may also simply result in a poorly designed imitative product.

Self contained programs either don't offer enough features (e.g. calculation of the spacing effect to learn faster) or offer more than they should (Software bloat).

The necessity of every object to have associative methods leads some skeptics to associate OOP with software bloat.

Software bloat may also be a symptom of the second-system effect, described by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month.

In 2008, Jamie Hyneman, co-host of the American television series Mythbusters, advocated Linux (giving the example of Ubuntu) as a solution to software bloat.

To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite.

The main purpose of DLLs (runtime library sharing between programs to reduce memory overhead) is sacrificed, however, creating more software bloat and complicating the deployment of security fixes.

Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment (also known as Zawinski's Law) relates the pressure of popularity to the phenomenon of software bloat:

There have been opinions that Microsoft Windows by its natural software bloat has eaten up much of the "hardware progress" that Intel processors gave to the "Wintel platform" via Moore's law.

Software bloat is a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory or processing power, or have higher hardware requirements than the previous version whilst making only dubious user-perceptible improvements.

Further applications involving Ashby's view of state counting include the analysis of digital bandwidth requirements, redundancy and software bloat, the bit representation of data types and indexes, analogue to digital conversion, the bounds on finite state machines and data compression.

Extensions are especially popular with Firefox, because Mozilla developers intend for the browser to be a fairly minimalistic application in order to reduce software bloat and bugs, while retaining a high degree of extensibility, so that individual users can add the features that they prefer.

Its intended successor is Stumpwm; ratpoison was growing increasingly software bloat, and Betts decided to largely reimplement its functionality in Common Lisp."StumpWM grew out of the authors' frustration with writing ratpoison in C. Very quickly we realized we were building into ratpoison lispy-emacs style paradigms.