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Software bloat

Software bloat is a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory, disk space or processing power, or have higher hardware requirements than the previous version, while making only dubious user-perceptible improvements or suffering from feature creep. The term is not applied consistently; it is often…

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Types of bloat

Bloatware

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Computing

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Software bloat

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Software bloat

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software bloat features programs bloatware may program also bloated requirements used end feature system user users hardware space term creep

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Software bloatis aprocess whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower0.90text
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