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Who cares if it's never used - bloatware sells ALMOST half of the features of any new software are never used, according to a report by an international research house. The survey, by Standish Group International, revealed that 45 percent of a software application's features are never used, 19 percent are used only rarely, 16 percent sometimes, 13 often and only seven percent are used always. In defence of what has been dubbed "bloatware", an industry analyst said that while it could be argued that it is "inelegant and sluglike", there is no doubt that bloatware sells. Top of page | Home Page | News | BT Money | Survey | Companies | People | Appointments | World | Markets | Trends | Columns | News Maker | Money Guides | Labour Guides | Calculators | Search | Archive | E-Mail us |