RegDeveloper on Microsoft's application development

A recent RegDeveloper article titled "New tune for Microsoft software design?" has some nice information about an old topic: are there already enough features in the software we use from day to day? A new person, a musician by heart, has joined Microsoft and has a fresh perspective: things (i.e. new software features) that don't make the life simpler should be abandoned. Not a novel idea, but reminds me of the old saying: even software can get rotten, and should sometimes be simply redisgned. Of course, that is often easier said than done.